Pair Programming

I'm going to go ahead and get really geeky here for the next paragraph or so, so if that's not your thing, consider yourself warned.

Kasia opines on pair programming and code reviews, and tells of a near-homicide when she tried pair programming. I enjoy coding on my own, but I also enjoy working with a partner. I can handle the typing duties, or I can handle the over-the-shoulder position, and I like to think that we work about as efficiently in either role.

A lot of it probably has to do with style. We (fortunately) share the same feelings on bracing (they should always line up) and comments (if you need them within a method, you're doing something wrong), and we've come to terms with our slightly different indentation philosophies (he won: four spaces, all the time). In any case, I do find myself slightly more productive when I work as part of a pair, if for no other reason than typos are all but eliminated with four eyes on the problem.

April 09, 2003 - 06:39 PM