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Collaborative Software For Pair Programming?

Posted by timothy on from the is-your-sister's-name-cynthia? dept.

DavidMatuszek writes "I will be teaching Java again this Fall. Students work in pairs, but unfortunately (after the first hour) typically not physically together. I would like to find collaborative software that is (1) dead simple to use, because that's not what the course is about, and (2) free. Google Docs would do, but students will be sharing code — plain text — not RTF or HTML or Word files. Is there such software for plain text?"

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  1. Use subversion either hosted or your own server by ls671 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I would recommend to use Subversion. You could setup your own server but there is also hosted solutions available. I searched Google for "hosted source control" and I found this link :

    http://weblogs.asp.net/fmarguerie/archive/2005/04/27/Hosted-source-control.aspx

    The bonus would be to teach your student how to use version control and how to work together on the same files. Subversion (and older CVS) integrate into Eclipse and most other development environment. There is also standalone clients available if your students use a simpler editor like vi or notepad ;-))

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  2. How about gobby? by StylusEater · · Score: 5, Informative

    How about gobby... http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/ ?

  3. SubEThaEdit or some other choices... by liquidhippo · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you are working on Mac OS X, then SubEThaEdit is a great choice for collaborative coding. As for other options, check this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor