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The effect of team programming on student achievement in COBOL instruction

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SIGCSE '82: Proceedings of the thirteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 156 - 162

https://doi.org/10.1145/800066.801359

Published: 01 February 1982 Publication History

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As a result of analyzing the art of computer program development, new skills are being suggested to improve programming efficiency. Two of these skills are the use of structured programming and the ability to work as a member of a team (Khailany and Saxon, 1978). The benefits gained from employing these skills in an educational setting (Cheney, 1977; Lemos, 1978; Weinberg, 1971) and in commercial areas (Baker and Mills, 1973; Schonberger and Franz, 1978) have been discussed in the literature.

Team programming involves the process of one's peers inspecting one's work for errors, ideas, and design methods in order to improve productivity and learning. The group technique is being applied to programming in industrial settings and is advocated for educational settings as one approach to improving programming.

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SIGCSE '82: Proceedings of the thirteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

February 1982

271 pages

ISBN:0897910672

DOI:10.1145/800066

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 14, Issue 1
Proceedings of the 13th SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
February 1982
278 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/953051
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