CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1Introduction
Over the years, computer has grown
from the basis of thermionic valves which is a bulky and high power consuming
systems to the miniaturized microprocessor-based computer which is more
portable. This led to easy acquisition of computer system has resulted to which
talked about “Computer Age”.
Almost all human activities cannot be
effectively and efficiently done without the computer being applied or
mentioned in the course of action.
Computer has proven to be the symbol
of efficiency. It has come to stay and must be effectively and constructively
implemented. Computers are now used in medical diagnosis, guiding and
controlling of aircrafts, cost effectiveness of complicated systems, project
and decision making in management of information system, mailing system etc.
Computers ahs found its way into the
education system thereby making complicated and tedious business of information
handling and management. These advantages of computer to play a vital role in
the Academic Sector, Hostel Reservation of a tertiary institution like Federal
Polytechnic Nekede, Oweri. (A Web-Based hostel reservation system, a case study
of Jombo Hostel , Federal Polytechnic Nekede).
The manual of preparing or Reserving
Hostels or rooms to students were sometimes in-efficient, in-accurate, slow and
unreliable as it goes with human labor, which is characterized by high level of
mistakes and misplacements.
This project is aimed at eliminating
the improper management and Reservation of rooms in the hostel. It is also
aimed at proper Reservation of rooms and ensure that the required equipments
needed by the students are present in the hostel.
1.2 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Federal Polytechnic
Nekede, is a Federal Polytechnic located in a town called Nekede, Nekede is
located near the city of Owerri. Federal Polytechnic has five (5) schools and
twenty five (25) departments.
JOMBO HOSTEL is a boy’s
hostel in Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, Imo State. Its rooms are many,
big, well furnished and can contain or accommodate a huge number of students.
As the number of students that enroll in Federal Polytechnic Nekede increases
the number of students applying for accommodation also increased.
At a time in the hostel
accommodation reservation, so many undesired issues came up necessitated the
design and implementation of a hostel accommodation reservation system. This
project aims at converting manual processed in the existing system to automated
to improve speed of operation, provide more facilities and more especially to
overcome all the challenges encountered.
1.3 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
The growing number of students in
higher institutions precisely Federal Polytechnic Nekede has posed a lot of
accommodation problems on the part of students and the school management.
Students at the beginning of each
session waste half of the semester looking for accommodation. The few hostels
that exist in the polytechnic are not
properly managed. Statistics of the number of rooms required to match the
growing number of students are far-fetched.
Most often, students pay hostel fee
and end up not getting one due to lack of bed space. Hostel administrators cannot give accurate
information of the occupancy of a particular room.
These and many more forms the
statement of the problem that necessitated this research work.
1.4 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
This project is designed to help in
the management of hostel Reservation in the Polytechnic. The main objective of
the new system includes the following:
1. Design
and develop a central database system that would serve as a hostel data-base,
which will contain information on all the available rooms in the hostel.
2. Design
a Computer-driven hostel Reservation system for reserving hostel rooms for
students
3. To
generate reports on hostel occupancy.
1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The research will be carried out or
will cover among other things:
1. Hostel
Rooms Registration
2. Hostel
Rooms Information Management
3. Hostel
Reservation
The research will be carried out
using Federal Polytechnic Nekede (Jombo Hostel as a case study).
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The new system designed for
computer-driven student’s host Reservation will among other things:
1. Facilitate
timely reservation of hostel rooms for students.
2. Check
the hostel occupancy at any time for information management.
3. Have
first hand information on the statistics of students in the hostel.
4. Enable
management to plan on improving hostel living condition.
5. Sum
up the total amount of money realized from hostel fee each session.
1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
Some of the constraints encountered during this project
design include the following:
1. Financial Constraints:
The design was achieved but not without some financial involvements. One had to
pay for cyber computer time. Also the typing and playing of the work has its
own financial involvements.
2. High Programming Technique:
the programming aspect of this project posed a lot of problematic bids that
took some days to solve. Problems such as database connections using Visual
Basic and database (access) posed a lot of challenges.
3. Few Literature Sources:
the topic though seems to be a common term. It is not a popular topic to surf
from the internet. It had fewer Literature Sources.
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
Hostel – a condition that a solution to an
optimization problem must satisfy.
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