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Discussion on: Why I'm not a fan of pair programming

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Mike Miller • Edited

At work I rarely do pair-programming (with a small dev-team it's hard to allocate two devs to the same task) but I did it for 3-months when I was first learning how to code.

My partners were all new to coding like me, yet another pair of eyes meant we were able to fix bugs and spot problems together much quicker than had we been working on our own. We were able to help ourselves and that gave us confidence, which helped us learn that much faster.

I think pair-programming works best when the partners are a similar level and a good use-case in business would be on-boarding new developers, getting to grips with a new code base.