The paper “Assessing Live Programming for Program Comprehension in Tertiary Education” by Oliver Graf, Sverrir Thorgeirsson and Zhendong Su has passed peer review at ITiCSE 2024 and will be presented in Milan, Italy in July. Two other accepted papers on Algot will be presented at SIGSCE 2024 in Portland, Oregon, USA in March.

Interreg ABH, a funding programme supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), accepted in November 2023 a joint grant proposal by Swiss and Austrian researchers on Algot as a development platform for citizen developers. The total funding granted by Interreg for the project is approximately €150,000.

Swiss Low Code Day 2023, organized by the University of Applied Sciences Eastern Switzerland, attracted around 150 participants and featured pitches and showcases on low-code platforms, including a recent version of Algot as a no-code programming environment for citizen developers. The presentation on Algot was well-received.