One computer per delegate, or pair programming?

For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))

We provide one laptop computer per delegate during our courses, and we're proud to do so - such a scheme works well for the majority of most of our programming courses, with each individual from his / her own company having practical coding exprience during the course.

However - for certain exercises on certain courses, there's a lot to be gained from using the alternative approach of working in pairs - putting your heads together to explore options and consider the best solution to a practical. And in the right circumstances, I encourage such pair working.

Pictures from last week's PHP course. At this stage of the course, we were studying how the main application, the business logic, the web helper codes and the look and feel of the application can (and should) be divided up into separate areas of code, so that each can be developed and maintained by a team member who enjoys working in that particular part of the application, and is an expert on it. The graphic artist majors on the graphic art, and the rock climber on the business logic that deals with rock climbing calculations.
(written 2007-09-23, updated 2007-09-25)

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