DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WEB BASED DISCUSSION FORUM FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING STUDENTS

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.