Are we pair programming? Do I have to?

On both homeworks and projects, you will be working in groups of between 2-4 people, which you all yourselves select from within your lecture section.

The designer of the NEU core CS curriculum considers pair programming, incl. colleague management, coordination, in addition to the actual peer review and communication of code, to be an essential learning outcome. He places this on par with the technical proficiency that students gain through these courses. I’m not prepared to deviate from that part of the uniformly considered curriculum. Do consider this a mandate. Your eclipse has built-in some software and tooling that we have pre-installed to help more efficiently collaborate w/and between group folk.

We do have protocols in place for if groups aren’t working out well. Please see the appropriate sections in the syllabus for these, and if things do not appear to be working out.

Please note that gradescope will not allow students to submit alone, and that each submission must be with a group of between two and four students.