This quarter, Stanford’s Computer Science Department will implement “pair programming” in the introductory computer science (CS) courses CS 106A: Programming Methodology and CS 106B: Programming ...

Have you ever wondered what Pair Programming is, or how it works? “If I were to summarize Pair Programming in four words, it would be ‘Two programmers, one pencil.’ ” One day I was just listening to a ...

Editor’s note: Farhan Thawar is the VP Engineering of Toronto’s Xtreme Labs. Before joining the Xtreme team, Farhan held the positions of Chief Software Architect at I Love Rewards, the Head of Search ...

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As you walk down the stairs, overlooking the office beneath you, you notice that everyone works in pairs. Each desk includes two keyboards and two mice and, in some cases, two monitors, but they ...

At Stats Perform, Engineering Manager Brad Pederson said that having two employees simultaneously think about different ways to solve a problem has led to an improved set of solutions. Those solutions ...

If you work at a startup and have ever seen two engineers cozied up next to each other on a beanbag chair intently gazing into the same computer screen, you’ve probably got some pair programmers on ...

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Open-plan offices, in particular, seem an impressively terrible idea. “Open plan layouts create massive distraction, damaging productivity,” according to a recent analysis by the U.K.’s Channel 4. See ...