Dr. Andrew Scott - Research

Overview

My current research interests are in computer science education, novice programming, responsive web applications, and mobile applications development.

The a main theme of my resrarch has been focused in the area of computer science education where my research output has focused on understanding and addressing the comprehension and confidence issues novice programmers face when learning programming, ways to teach the subject better, and the help seeking behavor of undergraduate students..

More recently my interests have turned towards the development of mobile and web based application development with a perticular focus in undergraduate research. I am also in the process of developing an a new webservice for programming visually aimed at novice programmers. I am currently studying the help seeking behavor of undergraduate CS students as well as the the intergration of micro services into the learning repetior of an undergraduate software development course.Previously I have worked as a research fellow and senior developer for a specialist centre (the brainchild of Professor Khalid Al-Begain) which assists small to medium sized businesses in mobile applications development.

R & D Projects

Selected projects that I have developed either as sole author, co-creator or in colatoration with external entities and students. Several projects I have also worked on can not appear in this list due to non disclosure agrements.

2025 WheeBFit - Project Supervisor

WheeBFit is a full-stack web application which allows students to learn about healthy nutrition, and fitness in a game-like manner. WheeBFit also allows teachers to monitor their students to keep track of their progress. WheeBFit features a responsive and easy to use smartphone first website for its student users, as well a large screen optimized features for the teacher. The project was supervised by Dr. Andrew Scott, and developed by undergraduate students William Barker, Richard Prange, and Joshua Vancleave for Dr. Tom Waterson from the school of teaching and learning.

Screen shots of the WheeBFit application. Click to enlarge.

2014-2015 Stormsurge Viewer - Co Creator / Colaborator

An Android app to show recent and historical information about hurricanes, their magnitudes, and paths. The application is being developed by Dr Andrew Scott and Dr William Kreahling at Western Carolina University in partnership with the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines.

  • Published on Google Play in 2016
A collection phones showing various screens of the Storm Surge applicarion. Click to enlarge.

2013 Crater Impact Calculator - Lead Developer

A HTML5 application to simulate, visualise, describe and statistically analsyse the effect of meteors when colliding with the earth's sufice. The application was developed in HTML5 using JavaScript and JQuery UI to enable a platform independant experience on tablets, laptops, and traditional computing devices. The project was a collaboration between Dr Andrew Scott, Professor Paul Roche and the Faulkes telescope Project at the University of South Wales. See It Here

  • Application Goes Live July 2013
Four screens from the Crater Impact Calculator. Click to enlarge.

2013 Archwillio - Lead Developer

Archwillio allows users to plot, access and contribute information and photos on over one hundred thousand archaeological sites thoughout wales. The application was eveloped in partnership with the four Welsh Archaeological Trusts at the Center for Excellence in Mobile Applications and Services.

  • 2013 Launched on GooglePlay
  • 2014 Shortlisted for British Achaeological Awards
Four screens from the Archwillio application shown on black colored smartphones. Click to enlarge.

2012-13 Horse Ration - Lead Developer / Colaboration

An iPhone/iPad app to Avoid overfeading and malnutrition and the problems that go with . The app allows users to accurately calculate the required nutritional balance for your horse. The application was developed by Dr Andrew Scott at the Center for Excellence in Mobile Applications and Services.

  • 2013 Launched in iTunes
  • 2013 Winner of British Equine Trade Association for Innovation
Four screens from Horse Ration application. Click to enlarge.

2012 FarmGraze - Lead Developer / Colaboration

An Android apps to help farmers lower costs and increase livestock health by getting the most out of their grazing areas. The app builds upon the grazing expertise of The Grassland Development Center at at the Insitute of Biological, Envionmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth university in Wales. The app allows users to accurately calculate the required nutritional balance for your horse. The application was developed by Dr Andrew Scott at the Center for Excellence in Mobile Applications and Services.

  • 2013 Launched on Google Play and iTunes
  • 2013 Officially unveiled at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show
Five screens from Farm Graze application. Click to enlarge.

2006 - 2017 Progranimate.com - Sole Author

A visually dynamic and interactive flowchart and code based programming environment and website to improve the comprehension and problem solving skills of novice programmers. The application is acompanied by an extensive website featuring some 27 problem solving tasks covering the basics of assignment, IO, decisions, looping and array manipulation. The tool currenly supports the Java, Visual Basic, Pascal and JavaScript languages. Progranimate has been utilised in schools, colleges and universities the world over.

  • Papers presented in the UK and internationally
  • Website active 2009 to 2018
  • Progranimatr is currently being re-developed
An example of the Progranimate application as it was in 2013. Click to enlarge.

Publications

  • Eanes. Z, Barlowe S.A, Charlot. A, and Scott A. S, 2025, A Novel Hybrid Framework for Mobile Sign Language Translation, Local LLM Text Generation, and Analytics, he Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, The Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 41, Issue 5, ISBN: ISSN: 1937-4771, PP: 160-170,
  • Barlowe, S. A, and Scott, A.S., 2023., News Consumption Among CS Majors: Habits, Perceptions, and Challenges, Proceedings of the 2023 ACM South East Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, United States, <Online Accessed 6/13/2023> doi.acm.org?doi=3564746.3587023
  • Lu, A. M., Scott, A. S., Berry, F. C. ,2018, Engineering Technology Students: Do they approach capstone courses differently than other students?. American Society for Engineering Education Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration, San Antonio TX.
  • Scott A. S., Kreahling W.C., Holliday M. A and Barlowe. S. A, 2017, A Holistic Capstne Exprerience: Beyond Technical Ability, In Proceddings of the 18th Anual Conference on Information Technoogy Education, ACM SIGITE 2017, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, United States, pages 1-6, <Online Accessed 6/13/2023>doi.acm.org?dio=3125659.3125680
  • Lucietto, A. M., Scott, A. S., Connor, K. A., Berry, F. C. (2017). Initial Survey of Engineering Technology Capstone Courses and Teamwork Building Using CATME (pp. 9). Columbus OH: American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. https://www.asee.org/public/conferences/78/papers/17831/view
  • Scott, A. S., Barlowe, S. A., 2016, How Software Works: Computational Thinking and Ethics before CS1, New York, NY: IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2016, Erie PA, IEEE, New York, NY, pp. 8 Pages, [Peer-Reviewed]
  • Holliday, M. A. and Scott, A. S., 2016, A Software Development Course Based on Server Side JavaScript, IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) 2016, Erie PA, IEEE, New York, NY, pp. 4 pages. [Peer-Reviewed]
  • Barlowe, S. A., Scott, A. S.,2015, O-Charts: Towards an Effective Toolkit for Teaching Time Complexity.. IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2015. [Peer-Reviewed]
  • Scott, A. S., and McPhee M., 2011, Using a Visual Programming Environment and Pedagogy to Teach Programming to Novices. in : A. Lazakidou A and E. Ibrahiem, ed. Learning Oriented Technologies Devices and Networks: Innovative Case Studies, Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN 978-3843390002,
  • Scott A. S., 2010, Using Flowcharts Code and Animation for Improved Comprehension and Ability in Novice Programming, PhD Thesis, University of Glamorgan, Awarded July 2010, [Peer-Reviewed]
  • Watkins M., Stockin S and Scott A,2008, Taking University to Schools, Submitted to the ICSHEA 2008, Liverpool - UK, Conference Website: [Accessed April 2008] http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/events/9th-annual-conf/, [Peer-Reviewed]
  • Scott A. S., Watkins M, and McPhee D,2008,Progranimate - A Web Enabled Problem Solving Application, The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government, 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing,Las Vegas - USA,pp: 498-508, [Peer-Reviewed]
  • Scott A. S., Watkins M and McPhee D,2008, E-Learning For Novice Programmers - A Dynamic Visualisation and Problem Solving Tool, Proceedings of the ICTTA 2008, Syrian Computing Society / IEEE, Damascus - Syria, [Peer-Reviewed]
  • Scott A. S., Watkins M and McPhee D, 2007, A Step Back From Coding- An Online Environment and Pedagogy for Novice Programmers, Proceedings of the 11h Java in the Internet Curriculum Conference, The Higher Education Academy, London Metropolitan University - UK, pp: 35-41. [Peer-Reviewed]
  • Scott A.S.,2007, A Tool to Improve the Problem Solving Skills of Novice Programmers, Proceedings of the 1st Student Research Workshop, Faculty of Advanced Technology, University Of Glamorgan - UK, pp: 59-63. [Peer-Reviewed]
  • Scott A, Eyres D and Watkins M, 2006, Animated Flowcharts as an Aid to Learning Programming, Proceedings of the 10th Java in the Internet Curriculum Conference, The Higher Education Academy, London Metropolitan University - UK, pp: 12-16, [Peer-Reviewed]

Posters

  • Scott A, Watkins M, McPhee D, Stocking S, 2010, Teaching Programming Visually, HP Innovations in Education World Wide Summit, San Francisco CA (won best poster award).

Profesional Presentations

  • Scott A, 2012 - Dec, Smart Phone Smart Camera, Royal Institution of Photography, Invited talk at Good Photo Symposium, London Uk.
  • Scott A, 2013 - Dec, First Steps in Programming with Progranimate, National Center for the Advancement of Teaching