title: "CodePilot: Scaffolding End-to-End Collaborative Software Development for Novice Programmers"
authors: Jeremy Warner and Philip J. Guo
venue: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
year: 2017
links:
- <a href="codepilot-paper.htm">Blog post</a>
- <a href="https://jeremywrnr.com/project/codepilot/">Webpage</a>

tweet: CodePilot is a web IDE that simplifies Git, GitHub, and real-time collaborative coding for novices

abstract: >
  Novice programmers often have trouble installing, configuring, and
  managing disparate tools (e.g., version control systems, testing
  infrastructure, bug trackers) that are required to become productive
  in a modern collaborative software development environment. To lower
  the barriers to entry into software development, we created a
  prototype IDE for novices called CodePilot, which is, to our
  knowledge, the first attempt to integrate coding, testing, bug
  reporting, and version control management into a real-time
  collaborative system. CodePilot enables multiple users to connect to a
  web-based programming session and work together on several major
  phases of software development. An eight-subject exploratory user
  study found that first-time users of CodePilot spontaneously used it
  to assume roles such as developer/tester and developer/assistant when
  creating a web application together in pairs. Users felt that
  CodePilot could aid in scaffolding for novices, situational awareness,
  and lowering barriers to impromptu collaboration.

bibtex: >
  @inproceedings{WarnerCHI2017,
   author = {Warner, Jeremy and Guo, Philip J.},
   title = {CodePilot: Scaffolding End-to-End Collaborative Software Development for Novice Programmers},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
   series = {CHI '17},
   year = {2017},
   isbn = {978-1-4503-4655-9},
   location = {Denver, Colorado, USA},
   pages = {1136--1141},
   numpages = {6},
   url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3025453.3025876},
   doi = {10.1145/3025453.3025876},
   acmid = {3025876},
   publisher = {ACM},
   address = {New York, NY, USA},
   keywords = {collaborative ide, novice programmers, pair programming},
  }