The Swiss National Science Foundation has funded research on Algot under the grant “Advancing a Novel Programming Language for Computer Science Education”. The amount awarded is approximately 883’000 CHF.

The paper “A Direct Manipulation Programming Environment for Teaching Introductory and Advanced Software Testing” by Maximilian Barth, Sverrir Thorgeirsson and Zhendong Su has passed peer review at Koli Calling 2024 and will be presented in Koli, Finland in November. The Algot testing extension presented in the paper is available at testvision.algot.org.

The paper “An Electroencephalography Study on Cognitive Load in Visual and Textual Programming” by Sverrir Thorgeirsson, Chengyu Zhang, Theo Weidmann, Karl-Heinz Weidmann and Zhendong Su has passed peer review at ICER 2024 and will be presented in Melbourne, Australia in August.