COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMMING IN AN ADVANCED PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP CONDUCTED IN A DISTANCE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

There is ongoing discussion regarding the benefits of collaborative programming in Software de-velopment. This paper presents the results of a collaborative programming research conducted at the Open University of Israel which is a distance learning institution. The research was conducted during the academic year of 2004/5 in the course “Advanced Programming in Java Workshop”, given in the Computer Science (CS) Department. The workshop is based primarily on J2EE technologies and requires the students to hand in a final project. We investigated the collaborative programming work in the workshop which takes place in a distance learning environment. Our results support the use of collaborative programming as an effective programming technique. 1