With the advent of information technology has received big development and implementation of
electronic textbooks in the educational process. For the development of e-textbooks are used by various
software products. The article describes the process of creating electronic textbook, developed in
Microsoft Excel. The choice of this software due to its wide spread because the programs of Microsoft
Office are present in the software on most computers as well as higher and secondary educational institutions,
as well as the possibility of establishing the necessary elements of benefits of programming
in VBA. The electronic textbook includes tasks to transfer numbers from different number systems in
decimal, automatically checking the correctness of the solved tasks and visual process of solving each
task in a multimedia mode. Multimedia display is carried out by using program code that includes a
loop, which displays the contents of the cells with a time delay. This electronic textbook used successfully
in the study of positional number systems in the classroom for Informatics and mathematics. The
main advantage of the textbook is that its development is used widely available software Microsoft
Excel. The generation of the initial data random ensures that the individuality of practical tasks on
each computer in the class. The translation algorithm the number from a given base into a decimal
for each task can be viewed in multimedia mode, which allows you to use the textbook for self-study.
Key words
positional numeral systems, positional numeral systems, multimedia, converting text strings, random number generator, the programming environment of VBA Excel.