Pair Programming?!

7 October 2006 by Tam.

Yesterday Olga and I did a ton of work on the website at her house. When I took CS3 for Dr. Paul, he talked about pair programming. I have my doubts about it - I have to wonder if some of the productivity gain isn’t just from people not being able to goof off with someone else there (of course, that’s nothing to sniff at if it works).

But it worked pretty well with Olga. I learned some CSS just watching her type, and it was a way easier way to collaborate on what we wanted than any other approach would have been. Of course, you then have to put up with someone constantly pointing out your typos and stuff. (Bu that is better than putting up with the typos themselves.)

Anyway, go check out what we came up with. It’s just a prototype but I feel really good about it. You can click through the several screens. The final product will be way more complex and have way more options and information, but at least part of the kind of flow of it is there.

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