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Conclusion

As mentioned throughout this chapter, pair programming is a skill that needs to be learned. Some practices covered in this chapter are intended to help you become a better partner when pairing. The perfection game can teach us how to help each other create a better product in a positive way. Keeping the conversation going during the pairing session is critical. The communication that occurs while pairing is what enables us to create something better than we would have done on our own.

As a closing thought, I want to share with you the fact that the more I pair program, the more I realize what I don''t know. It is the best way I have found of learning new skills from another developer. Whenever I have an opportunity to pair program with a developer, I do so. I have learned as much from junior developers as I have from experts. With the combined intelligence and experience of two developers at work on the same code, this is the closest thing to having a genius write every line of code.

The next chapter explores another practice we can use to help us toward genius a practice that helps us to solve big problems.