Neil works in computing education, researching and developing tools that help novices learn to program.  He works on BlueJ, Greenfoot, Stride, Strype and Blackbox.  Neil is interested both in how novices learn programming and how to design tools to help them learn more effectively.  He is also interested in improving the quality of research, and acts as an Associate Editor at the Computer Science Education journal in charge of Registered Reports.

Research interests

• Programming education
• IDE and programming tool design
• Registered Reports and pre-registration

More information

• Google Scholar
• ORCID
• Personal webpage