1.1 INTRODUCTION
The dignity of humans (person) is tied very closely to work. And when we
work well, when we recognize the dignity of other human beings as they work, we
essentially elevate the ordinary to the level of the engagement of the divine.
In the course of the industrial development of revolution there was tend to be
the elevation of the material above the man. And this created much tension in
Europe as such philosophical re-examination of the relationship between the work
and the man was considered. This struggle for the honour of labour has essentially
been rooted in the fact that man was designed to work for his goodness: The subject
of work was man; man was not the object of work.
My argument therefore is to increase or grow our skills and value such that
the coincidence of our values and our skills elevate us to the point where we are not
subject to capital but where we keep capital under subjugation and use capital to
improve the quality of life we live.
It is in the quest of achieving this goal and objective that the Student
Industrial Work Experience Scheme was inaugurated to create an avenue for
students in tertiary institution to acquire practical industrial exposure in their
respective discipline during the course of their studies. Such exposure, as was
envisaged would prepare students to fit, more readily into the industrial work
environment after their academic career.
Take for example the I T (Information Technology) world where I belong,
there be many who after their four or five years in school (University) come out to
the society to be completely computer novice as against those who do not even see
the four walls of a university but got an informal education in a computer centre just
because there was an exposure to the practicality of the job in the outside (the
competitive market world) world. Nevertheless I embarked on an extensive training
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and relationship during my industrial attachment period at the Information
Communication Technology Centre (ICTC) Uniport.
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The AVU-provided Internet access is via satellite through IntelSat
with a bandwidth of 3.5MB uplink and 5MB downlink.
Since 2004, the University has steadily improved its services to staff,
students and the general public with a mandate to improve the
computer literacy level of the University community. Currently,
various training programs are run in response to needs by students
and staff alike. Programs like the basic Microsoft office (which
includes word, power Point, access, excel, etc) to Matlab and
AutoCAD for engineering sciences, S.P.S.S. for the statistically
inclined to COMPTIA A+ for the hardware buffs and BASIC
programming. The centre has about 24 full time employees and
about 5-9 part-time workers depending on the period and training
offered.
Perhaps it was due to its superior facilities and technical know-how
that the Nigerian Communication Commission and digital Bridge
Institute, at a recently organized training at the Centre in December,
2006, declared it the best I.C.T. centre in the country.
Currently, the contract for the linking of all academic buildings on
the university campus to the internet via cables has been completed.
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Chairman
Steering
commity
director
Principal
Assistant Finance
Registrar Officer
Hardware
Support Instructors
Course
Development
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1.4 VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS
1.4.2 Training
This unit is responsible for all training of staff, students and
companies wishing to use the facility to train their staff. The unit
organizes training based on the need of students and staff or a
specific organization. Instructors are mainly in-house, professionals
of international repute are invited to fill in. the department
comprises of course development, evaluation and instructors.
1.4.3 M.I.S.
The M.I.S. Means Management Information System. This
department is mainly concerned with staff and student records. It is
one of the oldest departments of the centre and as a result, one of
the slowest in adapting to radical changes. Currently, it is still in the
computerization of students and staff records dating from the
inception of the university till date. As a result, a lot of its work is
still in what we describe as analog phase. That is their records are
still being traced through physical files, and folders heaped in
stacks.
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1.4.4 iCafe
This is the most popular department. It is as name an Internet cyber
café with state-of –the art facilities for surfing the World Wide Web
and research. This is also the most active in terms of versatility of
work experience and revenue generation for the centre.
1.4.5 Administration
The Administrative unit is responsible for coordinating the activities
of all the various department. It ensure that all departments
function in oneness with the others while it also administers the
Centre budget from year to year and is answerable to the Senate of
the University of Port Harcourt through the director.
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CHAPTER TWO
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it contains. The following are some of the of Windows 2000
properties.
i. The Start Icon: The start icon provides a launch point for all the
applications, such as word-processor, spreadsheet, databases etc.
clicking, on the start icon displays a list of options. The programs
that can be used, such as Microsoft word will be displayed in a sub-
list if the mouse pointer is moved to program.
ii. The Task bar: the task bar (normally positioned at the bottom of
the screen) provides a constant view of applications that are running
on the system and provides an easy way to switch between them.
The Taskbar provides a holding place for displaying icons of all
applications that are running. As more programs are opened the
taskbar will automatically resize its icons.
iii. My Computer: All of the main aspects concerning configuration
and access to the computer resources, such as the hard disk and
diskettes (floppy disk) are contained within the My Computer group.
Double clicking on any drive within this group will display window
containing further information about the selected item.
iv. Title Bar: Title bar is displayed along the top of almost all
programs, applications. Folder and dialog box windows. It is used to
display information such as the name of the application (or folder)
and the document you are working on.
v. The Scroll Bars: When a program or folder is needed to display
information within a window scroll bars are used, they are displayed
along the bottom and right side of the window. Using the scroll bars
makes it possible to move to any position within the document.
Vi. Maximize, Minimize, Restore and Close Buttons: The close,
Maximize, minimize and restore button are located at the top right
hand corner of every window when you click on the maximize button
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the window expands to cover the entire screen. The minimize button
reduces the windows to an icon within the task bar and Restore
button returns the window to its original size. The close button is
used to close a program window or dialog box.
vii. Dialog Box: Dialog boxes are to display information and allow
easy selection of options. A simple dialog box may prompt you for a
YES or NO response when performing a task such as saving
changes, when closing a file, How ever when performing complex
selections such as choice of font or character size Windows 2000
uses multiple boxes. There are other different boxes, the text box
which allows the input of text into dialog boxes, the list boxes which
presents a pick list of entries on screen that can be selected by
clicking the mouse over the required entry. The drop-down list
boxes- This gives a downward display on the right or left with list of
options to chosen. Last are the check boxes and radio boxes.
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ii. Start Icon Recent document: The document group with in the
start menu contains a list of recent open file. Selecting any
document will automatically open the file.
iii. Start Icon-Setting: Here one can directly access the control
panel and printer folders also to access the core system
configuration utilities, This way is particularly useful when an
application is already in the background and you want to make
quick change.
C. Accessories
Under the Accessories we have the WordPad which is a cut-down
version of the Microsoft word, this is because WordPad does not
support many of the advanced features found within Word. Other
accessories are the Paint that offers the services of manipulating
graphics and pictures and store them in a Paint format. Other
accessories include the calculator, clock.
D. Explorer, My Computer
My Computer makes it possible in accessing the hard disk of the
system, the O.S (Operating System) has a way of using a system of
drive letters to serve as logical pointers to the different physical
storage facilities you access called drives e.g drive D, E, F, G and
even H as the case may be from which it is possible to access all files
in it.
Combination of different files in one place on each drive for the
purpose of organization is called the folder (also referred to as
directories). A system of hierarchical folders within folders that
represent the hard disk are often referred to as the directory tree,
in the same way the very top of the file system is know as he root
directory.
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Both the Explorer and the My Computer objects allow you to
expose your files stored on disk. The Explorer window displays
folders in the left-hand pane and the content of the folders in the
right-hand pane. The Explorer is not installed on the windows 2000
desktop by default, but My Computer on the other hand, which is by
default installed as an icon on the desktop opens a new window
displaying the contents of a folder.
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Application
Presentation
Session
Transport
Network
Data Link
Physical
Network medium
Fig.2.1
THE OSI MODEL OF SEVEN LAYERS
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Fig, 2.2 Interrelationship between different systems
With different Operating System
Fig. 2.3
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Fig. 2.4
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conformation that the receiving computer gets all that tthe
sending computer transmitted.
A device called a Bridge operates at this level, it is a connectively
devices can filter unwanted signal for a particular network segment
with the help of the physical addresses the frames carry with them
there by avoiding flooding.
Fig.2.5
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network. The Network layer manages the process of addressing and
delivering packet to inter-networks.
The Network layer unlike the Data Link layer uses logical network
address to rout packets to specific networks on an inter-network,
and these logical network addresses are assigned during
configuration of the network, this means that as a network engineer
each network address must be unique on a given inter-network.
Another addressing done by the network layer well know addressing
e.g service addressing.
The complexity and versatility of the network layer addressing
gives rise to two different communication modes more sophisticated
in passing messages across the networks and both are recognized by
OSI. These are Connection-oriented mode, and connectionless
oriented modes. For the Network layer, it has the Router as its
connectivity device. The information available at the network layer
gives a router for more sophisticated packet delivery capabilities
than the Bridge. A Bridge separates LAN(Large Area Network)
segment without changing the LAN address but the Router deals
with not just the LAN segment but with inter-networks.
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Fig.2.6
D. OSI Transport Layer
The transport layer interacts with the network layer’s connection-
oriented and connectionless service and provides some of the
essential control features some of these function are:
Repackaging: When large messages are divided into segments
for transmission, this Transport layer does the work of
repackaging the segments when they are received before
reassembling the original message.
Error control: When segment are lost during transmission or
when segment have duplicate segment ID’s, the Transport
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layer will initiate error signal. It also detects corrupted
segments.
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2.2.2 TRANSMISSION MEDIA
The TM (Transmission medium) makes possible the transmission of
electronic signals which can be either digital or analog from one
computer to another. These electronic signals express data value in
the form of binary (on/off) impulse which are the basis of all
computer information. Then signals are transmitted between devices
on the network using some form of transmission media (cables or
radio) which have the following attributes:
Cost
Installation
Bandwidth
Band usage (base band or broad band)
Attenuation
Immunity from electromagnetic interference (EMI)
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Coaxial cable
i. A center conductor
ii. An outer conductor
iii. A insulator layer
iv. A plastic encasement
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2.2.4 NETWORK TOPOLOGY
Topology refers to the way in which the computers are connected in
a network. Each topology is suited for specific tasks and has its own
merits and demerits. The choice of topology is dependent on the
number and type of equipments being used and the cost. There are
5 major network topologies viz:
Bus
Ring
Mesh
Star
Hybrid
i. Bus topology: A Bus network is set up by connecting all of the
nodes to a single line, and the nodes connect only to the bus.
However, most bus networks later began to use a specialized central
node called a Hub to make the practice of attaching nodes easier.
The major demerit is that any break in the cable will cause all nodes
on the cable to loose connection to the network.
ii. Ring topology: This is a connection of computer in series next to
next. If a signal intended for a system is passed, each system in the
series bounces it along in sequence until it reaches the destination.
An advantage of the ring is that the number of transmitters and
receivers can be cut in half.
iii. Mesh topology: In a mesh topology, there are at least two
nodded with two or more paths between them. This is similar in
some ways to a grid network. In a true mesh topology every node has
a connection to every other node in the network. A major demerit of
the mesh is that alternate connections or routes exist between
nodes incase one goes down.
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iv. Star topology: The star topology reduces the chance of network
failure by connecting all of the systems to a central node. When
applied to a bus-based network, this central hub rebroadcasts all
transmissions received from any peripheral node to all peripheral
nodded o the network, sometimes including the originating node.
v. Hybrid topology: Hybrid network uses a combination of two or
more topologies in such a way that the resulting network does not
have one of the standard forms. For example, a star networks
connected together with bus topology exhibit hybrid network
topology
Mesh
Bus Ring
Star
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convert these signals coming into it the computer to be in the
parallel form so as to be understood by the computer in the same
way the card must convert the parallel signal in the computer to a
serial signal that can travel across transmission medium.
Installation Network Adapter Card.
This installation procedure for the Network adapter card will depend
on the card itself and the operating system of the computer or the
hardware platform but the steps are basically the same. To install
the card:
i. Physically plug the card into the expansion slot configuring
Jumper and Dip switches as required.
ii. Install the network k adaptor card driver
iii. Configure the OS so that the network adaptor card doesn’t
Conflict with other device.
iv. Bind the network adaptor to the required protocol.
v. Attach the network cable to the card.
The Internet is a very big thing these days and every one wants to
have a presence on it. It is an avenue for people can buy, sell and
even advertise themselves. Today we have e-commerce, e-banking, e-
learning etc. But these Web pages have what is called source codes
where the underground design and coding is done. Viewers and
visitors to the Web site only see the finished work of the design.
What is a design? In its simplest sense means how a Web page
looks. The organization, the easy navigation, the number of words
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and every thing else on the page contributes to the overall design of
the page. A well designed page is one that is easy to look at, inviting,
and does not bother the viewer. Nevertheless good design is
incredibly tough. The designer must design the page before creating
it (ie having a plan).
The inner working of the Web page is created using HTML(Hypertext
Make -up Language). This is a language that is used to describe
what will be displayed on screen. The HTML itself is not actually
shown on screen, but talks to the computer behind the scene. The
computer changes the HTML into human language and image, and
displays it on screen.
The Body: The body is the main paart of the HTML document,
within the body, every thing that appears on the screen can be
found. The elements within the body are Heading, Forms, Tables
and multimedia also these elements are all displayed on the Web
page by soft ware development called coding using Hypertext
Multimedia Language (HTML). Below are the summaries of different
tools of HTML called tags and their functions.
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<B> </B>
This tag makes the affected text bold
and darker, see <STRONG> </STRONG>.
<BGSOUND> </BGSOUND>
This tag allows you to play background sound files in Internet
Explorer.
<BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE>
This tag sets a section of text away from the margins.You can nest
these tags to indent even further.
<BODY> </BODY>
This tag encloses the entire actual text and code that appears on
the screen in the HTML document.
<BR>
This tag adds a line break to the page
<DD> </DD>
This tag defines an item within a defini-
tion list.
<DIV> </DIV>
This tag allows you to align more than one paragraph at a time.
<DL> </DL>
This tag sets up a definition list.
<DT> </DT>
This tag creates an item that will be defined within a definition
list.
<EM> </EM>
This tag makes the affected text italicized, or tilted slightly, see <I>
</I>.
<EMBED> </EMBED>
This tag allows the embedding of other types of files directly into a
page, includ-
ing both sound and video.
<FONT> </FONT>
This tag allows you to adjust the font size, face, and color
<FORM> </FORM>
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This tag tells the browser that a form is about to be created, and
also explains what action the form will take.
<HEAD> </HEAD>
This tag contains information that is
embedded in the page but does not actu-
ally appear on screen.The most important item in the header is the
title, which
appears on the browser icon.
<HTML> </HTML>
This tag encloses the entire HTML por-
tion of your Web page; in most cases it is the first tag in the source.
<I> </I>
This tag makes the affected text italicized, or tilted slightly, see
<EM></EM>.
<IMG>
This tag tells the browser that there is an image to be
displayed.The SRC attribute is required
<INPUT>
This tag tells the browser which control should be created
within the form and what it should do.
<LI> </LI>
This tag defines the items within a list.
<LINK>
This tag allows you to add externally linked style sheets to
your page.
<OL> </OL>
This tag sets up an ordered (numbered)
list.
<P> </P>
This tag begins a new paragraph.
<S> </S>
This tag draws a strikethrough line through the affected
text.
<SPAN> </SPAN>
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This tag allows you to add style sheets to as much text as
necessary.
<STRONG> </STRONG>
This tag makes the affected text bold and darker, see <B> </B>.
<STYLE> </STYLE>
This tag is used to define the style sheets
for the entire Web page in the <HEAD>
section.
<TABLE> </TABLE>
This tag encloses the entire table and allows the browser to display
the following row and column tags.
<TD>
This tag creates a new data cell in a table.
<TEXTAREA> </TEXTAREA>
This tag creates an elongated text box that allows the user to enter
in lengthy comments.
<TITLE> </TITLE>
This tag defines the title of the page, and places that title in the
name of the
browser at the top of the screen and also in the system taskbar.
<TR>
This tag creates a new row in a table.
<U> </U>
This tag underlines the affected text.
<UL> </UL>
This tag sets up an unordered (bullet point) list.
<TH>
This tag creates a new header tag in a
table.
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CHAPTER THREE
PERSONNEL MATTERS
Information and Communication technology is a rapidly changing
and advancing area of technology because of the demands for real-
time and prompt information.
In order to meet up with these ever changing trends in this sector,
the personnel who are deployed to manage the network and
attendant services have to be adequately and regularly trained in
order for them to keep up with the latest trends of service provision.
This issue of training was really lacking as it has to do with the IT
students and in some cases absent.
Also, the IT students are not motivated as there is no take home pay
and incentives to encourage them. A poorly motivated staff cannot
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deliver to the optimum and this in the long run affects the nature of
service rendered.
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CHAPTER FOUR
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This will help lessen the pains Students have to go through while
ensuring that rigorous training procedures are upheld for students
not in Companies.
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The Managers should see to it that Companies which refuse
acceptance of Students and who refuse to pay the minimum
allowance are penalized.
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