18-01-2011, 12:48 PM
The purpose of this thesis is to design a teaching system that helps children to learn elementary biology - such as insect species and their structure, life cycle, habitat, and so on - on the World Wide Web. Java, which was developed by Sun Microsystems, is a simple, robust, object-oriented, platform-independent, multithreaded, dynamic, general-purpose, architecture neutral programming environment. The crucial difference between a Java-based program and a traditional PC application is that Java programs are, by nature, network-aware and truly distributed. As creatures of the Internet, Java programs offer all the benefits of locally executed programs including responsiveness, and the capability to take advantage of local computing resources and even the global Internet. Based on these advantages, this project will be implemented using Java as the main tool. Other Internet Web programming languages, such as Hypertext Markup Language, Standard Common Gateway Interface, and JavaScript, are used as secondary tools. On the Internet, this project will provide a very interesting, creative and active environment through Java for children and their parents.
