Uccets

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST

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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

U.C.C.E.T.S

DOCUMENTATION CONTENTS

BY:

SAMUEL QUAYE

CHARLES BESSIE-DENTE

ELIKPLIM F. KARTEY-ATTIPOE

(B.E.D COMPUTER SCIENCE)

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1. BACKGROUND RESEARCH

The spread of computer-based applications has led to the growth of many franchises today. Several business, schools, governments have being transformed by the automation of certain activities and services they provide through computers. Experience has however taught us that doing things manually has caused a lot of difficulties, inconsistencies, ineffectiveness and inefficiency.

The current mode in which the University of Cape Coast conducts certain activities, most importantly the time-table making process is now becoming a burden to the school’s financial resources. Considering the amount of time and resources spent on developing one semester’s time-table, one expects that the completed time-table will be near perfection if not perfect already, but apparently this is not totally so, being that, certain errors and problems still exist in the completed time-table. A perfect example will be the second semester’s final time-table released by the University of Cape Coast’s Examination unit this year, what was realized was that, certain students had papers on the same day and same time, recalling the 5th of May, 2009, first session (8:30 – 10:30) Advanced Calculus 2 (MAT 302) and Numerical Analysis (CSC 402) same time but different venues. Some students who registered the Mathematical course were also offering the Computer Science course; this led to a lot of pressure on the part of those students who had to take the second paper right after the first one.

This is just one of the many problems that have come to the concern of the authorities, students and other individuals....