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	McDowell, Charlie     Options: All Media Types Journals Proceedings Div Books Whole Books Other Date Reviewed Title Author Publisher Published Date Descending Ascending Date Reviewed     1 - 4 of 4 reviews       Success in introductory programming: What works? Porter L., Guzdial M., McDowell C., Simon B. Communications of the ACM 56(8): 34-36, 2013.  Type: Article Introductory computer science (CS) and programing courses have universally recorded high rates of failure, which directly impact the pathway options into second- and third-year courses. This article addresses the problem using three te...... Aug 19 2013     Pair programming improves student retention, confidence, and program quality McDowell C., Werner L., Bullock H., Fernald J. Communications of the ACM 49(8): 90-95, 2006.  Type: Article, Reviews: (2 of 2) There is abundant literature on experiences with extreme programming (XP) processes supporting XP’s effectiveness, albeit applying a selected subset rather than all of its principles (see, for example, http://www.xpuniverse.c...... Oct 13 2006     Pair programming improves student retention, confidence, and program quality McDowell C., Werner L., Bullock H., Fernald J. Communications of the ACM 49(8): 90-95, 2006.  Type: Article, Reviews: (1 of 2) This carefully designed and controlled study investigated the effects of pair programming on hundreds of students taking an introductory programming course. A significantly higher percentage of the students who had paired took the next...... Sep 11 2006     Experimenting with pair programming in the classroom McDowell C., Hanks B., Werner L. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin 35(3): 60-64, 2003.  Type: Article An experiment that uses the paired programming approach to teach beginning and advanced programming courses is discussed in this paper. Paired programming is an approach advocated by the extreme programming process [1], where a pair of...... Feb 10 2004
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