(This site is currently under development. Please bear with us while our efforts are focussed on completing the language and its IDE.)

Elan - short for 'Educational language' - is the first new programming language designed specifically for teaching in British schools since BBC Basic in 1981.

Elan is free, open source, and focussed on the needs of education (targeting KS3-KS5) - and will remain so. It runs within a browser, either from this site, or from your school web server, or just as a standalone Html page saved on your desktop.

Elan is currently at Beta stage - neither complete nor completely bug-free! You are invited to try out the Beta (see link below). We suggest you start by exploring and runnning the Demo programs (button on top-left of screen). The Help button takes you to the (incomplete) Reference Manual.

Useful links

Basics