I think PP is great; however, I do not like to use it as an educational practice. Why boils down to two ideas - a) you are not hired in teams, so you cannot rel

I think PP is great; however, I do not like to use it as an educational practice. Why boils down to two ideas - a) you are not hired in teams, so you cannot rely on classmates; and b) we've made students so scared to help each through fear of academic integrity and copyright violations that we had to create a special activity centered around looking at someone else's code. The first idea is rather obvious - the teams you build while learning may be enjoyable but that does not directly translate to hireability. PP Exercises are still scored primarily through correctness over contribution, so a slacking student can do less and potentially learn less without fear of too much penalty to their course grade. The second idea is more an opinion about the state of CS ed. In an English class, if I wrote something that wasn't good, I could rely on peers to help. If I need help on my weight lifting form, I can show my form to others for advice. In CS, how dare you show your code to anyone because Copy and Paste are so easily done. I've literally had students swear off StackOverflow and helping peers for fear of being labelled a cheater. PP to me seems like its trying to solve that fear rather than deal with the cause of the fear.