Sounds like a worthwhile experiment. If your students can extract a
not-too-long function that can be understood in isolation then they are
already doing pretty well though!
Ben
On 18/11/15 16:02, Lex Nederbragt wrote:
Hi,
I have a 20% position at the informatics department here in Oslo (the
rest is at biology), where I (co)supervise Master and PhD students from
the Biomedical Informatics group. The group has about a dozen MSc
students, involved in a range of different projects, but most will have
a coding component. We recently discussed whether we could have the
student review each other’s code ('Code peer review'? 'Peer code
review'?) as a way to improve their coding skill, in a hopefully
low-threshold way (rather than have the professors look at it).
About the format, we feel students should show each other small bits of
code (not all of it at once), e.g. one not-too long function that makes
for a doable review exercise: understand the context and what the code
is supposed to do, perhaps even test it, should not take too long time
for the reviewer. The students can do the entire review process as a
pair, or the reviewer looks at it before they meet to prepare questions
and suggestions for improvement. Once in a while we could ask students
to demonstrate an example of what they found to the whole group, e.g. a
piece of code before-and-after.
We were wondering whether others have tried such an approach, or whether
it sounds hopelessly ambitious...
Thanks in advance,
Lex Nederbragt
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