DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF WEB BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITE (A CASE STUDY OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS)

CHAPTER ONE

1.1 INTRODUCTION

Social life in most of our University is diminishing because of some factor. These limitations of social life have affected some of the students not to know how to relate in the outside world. In CaritasUniversity socialism is a problem. In building a social network website for the University will make the University to solve the problem of the anti socialism. A social network is a social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes," which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike,  or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.

1.2  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

The college will aims at excelling in every aspect of Agriculture and capacity building of middle level manpower (ND and HND) in practical and theoretical Agriculture and other science course. It has the under listed objectives for efficient performance and achievement of the target.

To develop and run training programmed that can produce self-reliant agriculture technologies and technicians for the agricultural industry. To meet NBTE accreditation standards, expand and diversify programmed that are cost effectives.

Computer Science Technology Department was founded in 2010, by former provost Dr. Paul Ajah, and was headed by Mr. Charles O. Okonkwo (HOD) till date.

The department has more students now compare to past years.

1.3   OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The main objectives of the study are Computer science  Social Network while the subsidiary objectives are:

i.                   To Effectively and efficiently communication of  student online

ii.                 To Reduce pressure on seminars by introducing online seminar

iii.              To Enhance the department document management

iv.               To Reduce queue in seeing of lecturers and head of departments

v.                 To Reduce anti Socialism

vi.               To Creation of educative groups online to enhance learning

vii.            To Forming reading partners online

viii.         To Making new friends online

ix.               To Boasting the image of the school

1.4  SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The scope of this study is centered on designing and automated and web-based application for student online communication and reduction of anti socialism. The system is strictly based on students, management and lecturers communication and online seminars and suggestion and specially for making of friends.

1.5  SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

Viewing critically the inefficiencies in the social life of student relationship presently in CaritasUniversity, Amorji Nike Enugu, the need to develop and implement online social network website that will handle such inefficiencies cannot be over emphasized.

1.6  LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

Constraints of time and resources are the factors, which prevented the implementation of this system hosted online.

1.7    DEFINITION OFTERMS/VARIABLES

Computerized: Convert to computer – based system to install or start using a computer system to organize, control, or automate something.

Processing: To deal with somebody or something according to an established procedure

Communication: Interaction between two or more person or sending of message from one place to another

Online: Connected via computer attached to or available via a central computer or computer network.

System: Setof computer components i.e. in assembly of computer Hardware, Software and peripherals functioning together.

Automation: Thereplacement of human workers by technology; A system in which a workplace or process has been converted to one that replaced or ministries human labour with electronic or mechanical equipment.

Web: A complex structure, or design www: computer-based network of information resources that combines text and multimedia. The information on the www can be accessing and search through the internet, a global computer network.

Database: Any collection of data organized for storage in a computer memory and designed for easy access by authorized users.

Database Update: This simply means applying and maintaining changes on a database after data must have been added, removed or modified

System Administrator: This is a person responsible for maintaining and operating a computer system.

 PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (the name is a recursive acronym) is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages.:  Hypertext Preprocessor is the code used to link the database to the interface of the website, it is a server code.

Apache: It is the server used for designing php, python pages.

SQL: Structured query language, it is a code used to query or insert records in a database.

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.

PhpMyAdmin: is an open source tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web.

CSS:Cascading Style Sheet is a programming language used in the graphics and fine tuning of the website

SwishMax: It is animation software used in doing all the animations in the website.

Macromedia Dreamweaver: It is the software used in organizing the website.

Macromedia Fireworks: It is the software used to create or the graphics and images in the website.

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