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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.

The paper “Assessing Live Programming for Program Comprehension” 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.