DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WEB BASED DISCUSSION
FORUM FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING STUDENTS
ABSTRACT
The
world is fast becoming a global village due to the effect of globalization and
rapid growth in technology. This has enabled information sharing among various
people of the world, thereby solving basic societal problems and bringing about
rapid development. The study designs and implements a web based forum where
computer science and computer engineering students of a particular university,
or various universities in Nigeria and the world at large can come together and
interact online. Various rooms/categories such as programming, web development,
networking, computer repairs/maintenance, android/IOS discussions, phone and
technology in general can be integrated into this online forum. Faced with the
challenges many computer sciences and engineering students face when trying to
execute some of their projects, the researcher deem it fit to create a social
platform where students can register, log in, ask IT questions and get quality
answers from users and admin, create numerous computer and ICT related topics
to inform others, and get others to read their thoughts and projects and reply
or like their post. Concerning methodology, the system was created using PHP
and MySQL. The aim of the system is to create a discussion forum where users
can create various topics, reply topics and moderate topics by the
administrator of the site or super moderators.