Development of an e-Book on Computer Networks

Abstract

E-book, which is believed to be an environmental friendly product, is now becoming a main study stream from young to aged. From a regular survey conducted by Leisure and Cultural Service Department of Hong Kong in 2013, the usage of e-book in public library has been being increased from 90,566 in 2008 to 142,084 in 2012. As a famous British science fiction author, Douglas Adams mentioned in 2000, "WE NOTICE E-BOOK READERS, WE DON'T NOTICE BOOKS.", e-book takes a great position on learning and entertainment. From an article of South University in 2013, e-book is trusted to be beneficial in accommodating more learning styles and easier to search keywords. Therefore, by taking these advantages, this project involves putting parts of the knowledge from EE3009 into a web-based e-book. It takes an important role for giving a more motivated learning way to student. To entertain the printed words, animations and step-by-step teachings are imported for getting more student's attentions. These animations and procedural teaching methods are mainly composed of html and JavaScripts. With the help of CSS and KineticJS libraries, the e-book appearance is greatly improved to be more eye-catching. The creation of this e-book purposing in giving an ease to intangible knowledge learning.