The paper “Map, Filter, and Conquer: A Visual Tool for Learning Higher-Order Functions” by Silvan Renggli, Sverrir Thorgeirsson, Theo Weidmann and Zhendong Su passed peer review at ITiCSE 2025 and will be presented in Nijmegen, Netherlands in July.

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.