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 ...

When it comes to software developers, there are a few distinct types. For example, the extroverted, chatty type, who is always going out there to share the latest and newest libraries and projects ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Pair programming is one of the most contentious practices within Extreme Programming - both supporters and detractors can become quite emotional. So what is pair programming, and why do people become ...

We’ve all heard the fable of "The Tortoise and the Hare." We have likely ignored the lesson of the fable that slow and steady wins the race. Nowhere is it more apparent that we’ve forgotten what the ...

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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 ...