Pair Programming best-practices

🧑🏿‍💻🧑🏻‍💻 Pair Programming is hard to keep sustainable. Learn the basics and best-practices in this video so you and your team can increase in code quality and grow as software engineers! 📈
Recommended read: martinfowler.com/articles/on-...
0:00 Intro
0:20 Why
3:05 How
3:22 Driver/Navigator
4:53 Pair reviewing
10:03 Summary

[@Codefide]

Thanks for the overview. I have started to pair-program with the new team/company I have recently joined. At first I was reluctant to it and wanted my own space to think about the logic/problem/solution but after a few session I am starting to see the huge benefits to it! I'm really looking forward to many more pair-programming sessions with my colleagues :)

[@dmitrybiletskyi7020]

Thank you for the great video. We're only going to use pair programming in our team so I found it extremely useful.

[@greatestmoviesounds]

Thanks for this mate! I’m sure to learn a lot from you!

[@codingismyreligion]

Im going to propose this at the start-up im workign at 🎉

[@theafrodreamer]

I have a code paring interview coming up. This video is helpful.

[@orvillelim2461]

Great content!! thank you!

[@jazibulhassan]

This was helpful. Thanks!

[@gautamsnegi27]

Great content mate.

[@YiyunMaoSSW]

Cool video! Appreciate the helpful tips🤩

[@LarryPanozzo]

Great video,

[@user-ry9im5ek9l]

Great video, would love to hear your thoughts on pair programming between a junior and senior dev, more of a mentor/mentee role

[@branvandermeer]

I recommend you read the "Different skill levels" section of this article: martinfowler.com/articles/on-pair-programming.html#DifferentSkillLevels

[@JTXRP]

Great video! How did you make your description so professional? It has images, clear spacing? Is there a format or something you can use. Would love to know more

[@branvandermeer]

Do you mean the chapters? YT generates the design itself, I only provide the "0:00 Intro, 0:20 Chapter 1" etc.

[@JTXRP]

@@branvandermeer I think KZbin did an update and I just realized it when viewing your video. I thought there was some kind of code you used.

[@JelleVictoor]

Hey, great video. Perhaps you could look to what woody zuil has to say about driver/navigator. His definitions are a bit different, but it’s in the context of ensemble programming. I tend to follow his definition more

[@branvandermeer]

I've seen a talk from Woody in the past about mob programming, but I'm not sure how his driver/navigator is different from what I'm saying, can you elaborate? Btw, I also have a video about driver/navigator in more detail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKKqnn9sfctlac0

[@yoavtamir7707]

Subscribed!

[@MilMike]

I hate pair programming.. at least at my current company (never did it before): - the development is way way slower - the quality is not necessary better - It is very energy draining.. the need to explain every single character and discussing why I use X over Y is crazy - I can't focus if someone is talking, especially about some unrelated bullshit. - other devs usually don't take any breaks. That means sometimes I sit for 5 hours and talk about everything Sometimes we had a bigger problem, and we talked about it for hours and tried to solve it. Later after work I thought about the problem by myself quietly for few minutes and solved the problem in 30 minutes... I prefer to work alone and if I need help (or someone else needs help) I am OK with pair programming for max 1 hour. I also love to listen to music while coding and not blah blah blah.. Maybe I am not compatible with pair programming or maybe we are doing it wrong, I don't know.. But for me it is a nightmare. In my next job, I will explicitly ask if the company is doing pair programming.