My IT Report1
My IT Report1
SCHEME (SIWES)
BY
ABUBAKAR BABAYOLA
FUKD/SCI/21B/COM/0251
AT
MABAMANGA COMPUTERS
NOVEMBER, 2024
DECLARATION
I hereby declare that this work is the product of my training effort, undertaken under the
supervision of …………………………….. and has not been presented and will not be presented
elsewhere for the fulfilment of any Industrial Training Requirement.
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CERTIFICATION/APPROVAL
This is to certify that the report was carried out under my/our supervision
_____________________________ _________________________
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
My appreciation first goes to almighty Allah, the creator of Heaven and Earth for granting me
the grace and privilege to be able to complete this SIWES program successfully and on schedule.
I am also grateful to my industrial based supervisors Mall Muhammad Bamanga and Friday. And
my tutors for their thorough supervision and useful advice which helped and also contributed to
the success of the SIWES program. May the almighty God make their days on Earth longer to
reap the fruit of their labor.
Also I cannot but acknowledge my germane H.O.D, Dr Basiru Jibril. and all the lecturers in the
department.
Thanks and Almighty Allah bless you all.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DECLARATION.......................................................................................................................................... i
CERTIFICATION/APPROVAL............................................................................................................... ii
ACKNOWLEDGMENT ........................................................................................................................... iii
LIST OF FIGURES .................................................................................................................................... v
ABBREVIATIONS, DEFINITIONS AND GLOSSARIES.................................................................... vi
CHAPTER ONE ......................................................................................................................................... 1
1.0 INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................. 1
1.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF SIWES .......................................................................................... 2
1.3 BASIC DEFINITION OF IT PLACE ............................................................................................. 3
1.4 ORGANIZATIONAL CHART OF IT PLACE ............................................................................. 4
CHAPTER TWO ........................................................................................................................................ 5
2.0 WORK DONE/EXPERIENCE ........................................................................................................ 5
2.1 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER.............................................................................................. 5
2.2 INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT WORD .............................................................................. 7
2.3 DESCRIBING MICROSOFT EXCEL ENVIRONMENT ........................................................... 8
2.4 COMPUTER PROGRAMMING .................................................................................................. 11
2.5 VISUAL BASIC (VB) ..................................................................................................................... 11
3.6 EXERCISE ...................................................................................................................................... 13
CHAPTER THREE .................................................................................................................................. 16
3.0 KNOWLEDGE GAINED DURING THE SIWES .................................................................... 16
CHAPTER FOUR..................................................................................................................................... 17
4.0 SUMMARY ..................................................................................................................................... 17
4.1 RECOMMENDATION .................................................................................................................. 17
4.2 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................... 17
REFERENCES .......................................................................................................................................... 18
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 2.1: Organizational Chart…………………………………………………….. 4
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ABBREVIATIONS, DEFINITIONS AND GLOSSARIES
i. National Board for Technical Education (NBTE): Is an organ of the federal ministry of
education which is charged with the responsibility of regulating technical and vocational
education and training institutions in Nigeria.
ii. National University Commission (NUC): Is a Nigerian government agency set up to
regulate higher education in Nigeria.
iii. Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES): Is a program in Nigeria that
provides practical work experience to student.
iv. Industrial Training Fund (ITF): It operates under the mandate to promote the acquisition
of skills in industry and commerce, thereby bolstering productivity and efficiency in the
Nigeria economy.
v. Information and Communications Technology (ICT): Its covers all technical means
used to handle information and aid communication.
vi. Industrial Training (IT): Its indicates to program which aims to provide a managed good
practical training within a particular time frame.
vii. Visual Display Unit (VDU): Is a screen on which information from a computer can be
shown.
viii. Visual Basic (VB): Is an event-driven programming language and environment from
microsoft that provides a graphical user interface.
ix. Rapid Application Development (RAD): Is built on development and testing and an agile
approach with little (or no) preparation ahead of time.
x. Graphical User Interface (GUI): Is a digital interface in which a user interacts with
graphical components such as Icons, Buttons, and Menus.
xi. Integrated Development Environment (IDE): Is a software application that helps
programmers develop software code efficiently.
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CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
The ITF solely founded the scheme during its formative years. But as the financial involvement
became unbearable to the fund, it withdrew from the scheme in 1978. The federal government
handed over the scheme in 1979 to both the national universities commission (NUC) and national
board for technical education (NBTE). Later on, the implementation of the siwes programmer to
industrial trust fund (ITF) and it was effectively taken over by the industrial training found in July,
1985 with the founding solely borne by the federal government.
The student work experience scheme (SIWES) is a worldwide program practiced in countries like
Japan, Australia, USA, Europe, and in African countries too. It is popularly known as co-operative
education and referred to as sandwich in Europe. It is a six (6) months students industrial work
experience scheme (SIWES) taken in the third year of the degree program, where the students go
to various establishments related to their course of study.
The program was initially introduced in Nigeria by the Industrial Training Fund (I.T.F.) which was
established under Decree 47 of 1972 by the Supreme Military Council, headed by General Yakubu
Gowon. The Decree was billed to take effect from 31st March, 1974 and had as its core objective,
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the gradual reduction of the percentage of foreign participation in most of Nigeria’s economic
activities, accompanied by a systematic cooperation of locally oriented skilled manpower into the
vast economic sector.
One of the key functions of the ITF is to work as cooperative body with industry and commerce
where students in institutions of higher learning can undertake mid-career work experience
attachment in industries which are compatible with student’s area of study. The students Industrial
Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) is a skill Training program designed to expose and prepare
students for the Industrial work situation which they are likely to meet after graduation.
Participation in SIWES has become a necessary pre-condition for the award of diploma and degree
certificate in specific disciplines in most institutions of higher learning in the country in accordance
with the education policy of government.
The word SIWES (Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme) was introduce by the federal
government in the year 1973 to develop the technological, physical and social skill of our nation,
through this, adequate and intelligent student are providing the department involved the actual
challenge various discipline before they can be awarded as a National Diploma (ND) graduate.
i. Provide an avenue for students in institutions of higher learning to acquire industrial skills
and experience in their approved course of study and also by interacting with people with
more experience in the field under consideration.
ii. Prepare students for the industrial work situation which they are likely to meet after
graduation.
iii. Expose students to work methods and techniques in handling equipment and machinery
that are mostly not available in their various institutions.
iv. Provide students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge in real world situation
thereby reducing the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical work.
v. Enlist and strengthen employers’ involvement in the entire educational process and prepare
students for employment in Industry and Commerce.
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1.2.1 ROLES OF STUDENT
i. To make through explanation of the work done during my Six-month industrial training.
ii. To fulfill the requirement for national diploma in computer science.
iii. To contribute to the body of knowledge and to enhance the understanding of the writer
about a similar or same job.
The logbook issued to student on attachment by the institution was used to record all daily activities
that took place during the period of attachment, and it was checked and endorse by the industry
based/institution based supervisors and ITF during supervision.
Mabamanga Computer Centre, was private organization, established in the year 2015. It owned
and manage by Muhammad Aliyu Bamanga
It is a non-governmental organization in Adamawa state. They operate ICT situated at km4, No. 8
Opposite Local Government Secretariat Girie, Adamawa state.
Science academic for training and skill acquisitions in nearly every aspect of IT of some of which
include engineering section. Repairs and maintenance, programming and, computer graphic e.t.c.
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This company is head by the director and administrative manager next to him followed by the
engineers, system analyst and the instructors.
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CHAPTER TWO
2.0 WORK DONE/EXPERIENCE
My First weeks at the office was very educative as I was posted into the computer department
where I spent time working with Introduction to Computer.
A computer system be it micro, a mainframe or super computer consist of both hardware and
software. It is an electronic machine capable of accepting data, process the data into a meaningful
information as output. A computer is a machine or tool, which is capable of:
The term computer is obtaining from the word compute. A computer is an electronics device that
inputs (take in) facts (known as data) and then processes (does something to or with it). Afterward
INTRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
In simple language, information technology (I.T) is the overall technical where withal required
for an efficient gathering, storage, processing utilizing computers, the internet and other electronic
tools like camcorders, mobile or cell phone etc.
i. Keyboard
ii. Joystick
iii. Mouse
iv. Electronic pen
v. Track ball etc.
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Output Devices Include:
i. Printer
ii. Monitor (VDU)
iii. Plotters
PART OF A COMPUTER
HARDWARE are all part of computer he computer you can see and touch or visible part of a
computer which means is the physical device one can see and touch the range from the smallest of
chips to the total unit called computer system.
SOFTWARE are list of instructions needed by a computer to perform specific tasks. Software is
often called a programme, most times they are compilation of codes written in specific language
i.e. jargons and conventions developed by man to achieve certain ends. There are type of software
such as utility software, application software etc.
APPLICATION OF COMPUTER
Computer has varying applications ranging from the most mundane and simple tasks to the highly
sophisticated and seemly complicated. Computers can be applied to basic office jobs like typing
memos, letters, graphic design, photo imaging and massive data analysis in different fields such
as communication, engineering, crime control, medicine and other technology based field to
mention but few. Computer has made it possible to keep reliable records, to manage large files to
conduct near impossible searches, to manage and protect databases and promote secure and
efficient payment system.
This is very crucial and never learn it by trial. Let a competent technician demonstrate it to you.
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Truth however is that it is as simple as connecting a video player and television set to themselves
and then to power. Once the technician has demonstrated this at least twice-then you are good to
go. The use of inverter and stabilizer for any computer is recommended, because of power
fluctuation.
Microsoft word is the typing, editing, storing, and printing of texts through an electrochemical
device called computer. It can also be define as the act of manipulation characters to create a
professional looking document through the computer.
i. Typing: This is done by using the keyboard. The keyboard as it is known as input device.
It has about 108 keys on it. There are five part of the keyboards namely: function keys e.g.
f1-f12, computer keys e.g. Esc, ctrl, shift, e.t.c Typing keys A-Z, Dedicated keys e.g. page
up, page down, Arrow keys and Numeric keypad.
ii. Editing. This is the act of correcting error (s) in a document. It is also involves rearranging
the document so as to give a perfect, desire, and professional.
iii. Storing: This is the same thing as saving a document into the permanent memory so as to
able to re-call it any other time. It is needed. this should always be done frequently so as to
guide against frequently power failure which can shut-down the computer and erase any
file that has not been saved.
iv. Printing: This is the act of getting the hard copy or the soft copy of the document through
a device called a printer using paper.
i. Put on the computer and allow it to boot up and display the windows environment or
desktop.
ii. After booting, click on the start button.
iii. Move the mouse to all programs
iv. Select Microsoft Word
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v. Wait for the loading.
When Microsoft Excel is fully loaded into the computer memory, the following will be seen.
i. The spreadsheet/worksheet
ii. Rows, Columns and cells
iii. The mouse pointer and cursor
iv. Working menu and bars
PLOTTING OF CHART
Charts are graphical representation of the data in a worksheet. They are appealing and makes it
easy for users to set comparisons patterns and trends in data. For instance, rather than having to
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analyze several columns of worksheet you can see at a glance whatever the student in a given class
actually make the required average to pass.
We use sum when calculating addition in excel. And before spreadsheet can respond to any
mathematical command. It must be entered as an equation. Therefore, to enter a function as an
equation. We must firstly start with “equals to “ (=) sign.
FONT FORMATTING
Font refers to every typed letter in the computer, while the formatting simply implies beautifying
e.g. coloring, bolding, italic, underlining etc.
In case you need to type a given line of data in a given rows and column, but discover it has been
occupied by another data not worry, you can simply insert another row or column in the same
place.
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TEXT ALIGNMENT
One can choose to rotate their text to a given angle when working in MS-Excel.
You can choose to add pattern or color to your worksheet to emphasize some certain point or to
enhance it appearance.
SORTING
Sorting means arrangement of data either in ascending or descending order. When ascending it
implies that the data will be arrange alphabetically while descending start with the last alphabet
coming first.
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AUTO FILL
If you have lines of text that need to be numbered, you don’t actually need to waste much time
numbering it one after the other while you can use automatic filling to fill the numbering to any
destination of your choice in the worksheet.
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A programmer can create an application using the components provided by the Visual Basic
program itself. Over time the community of programmers developed third-party components.
Programs written in Visual Basic can also make use of the Windows API, which requires external
functions declarations.
The final release was version 6 in 1998 (now known simply as Visual Basic). On April 8, 2008,
Microsoft stopped supporting Visual Basic 6.0 IDE. The Microsoft Visual Basic team still
maintains compatibility for Visual Basic 6.0 applications through its "It Just Works" program on
supported Windows operating systems.
Login Page
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End If
End Sub
3.6 EXERCISE
The Task here is to create a program that will calculate a student result.
Private Sub BtnResult_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Handles BtnResult.Click
Dim StudentName As String
Dim computing As Integer
Dim science As Integer
Dim math As Integer
Dim english As Integer
Dim religion As Integer
Dim business As Integer
Dim agric As Integer
Dim phe As Integer
Dim total As Integer
Dim average As Integer
Dim grade As String
Dim remark As String
Dim score As Integer
StudentName = TxtStudentName.Text
computing = TxtComputing.Text
scieince = TxtScience.Text
math = TxtMath.Text
english = TxtEnglish.Text
religion = TxtReligion.Text
business = TxtReligion.Text
agric = TxtAgric.Text
phe = TxtPHE.Text
total = Int(computing) + Int(science) + Int(math) + Int(english) + Int(religion) +
Int(business) + Int(agric) + Int(phe)
average = total / 8
remark = score
LblAverage.Text = average
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ElseIf average >= 60 And average <= 65 Then
LblGrade.Text = "B"
ElseIf average >= 55 And average <= 60 Then
LblGrade.Text = "BC"
ElseIf average >= 50 And average <= 55 Then
LblGrade.Text = "C"
ElseIf average >= 45 And average <= 50 Then
LblGrade.Text = "CD"
ElseIf average >= 40 And average <= 45 Then
LblGrade.Text = "D"
ElseIf average >= 35 And average <= 40 Then
LblGrade.Text = "E"
ElseIf average <= 35 Then
LblGrade.Text = "F"
End If
LblRemark.Text = remark
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Figure 3.1: Result generator
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CHAPTER THREE
3.0 KNOWLEDGE GAINED DURING THE SIWES
The student industrial work experience scheme (SIWES) exercise has contributed greatly in my
academic carrier, because I have gain some experience which is very useful to my field of study.
The first advantage acquires during my industrial training programed was that I was taught
computer component i.e. hardware and software, how to launch computer packages such as; Ms
Word, Ms excel e.t.c.
Finally, my perception about office profession has been greatly widely broaden. It gives me the
opportunity to gain first experience of the profession even though it was not easy.
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CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 SUMMARY
At the end of the SIWES program, the exercise gave me the opportunity to see myself in real life
working conditions. It also gave me the opportunity to broaden my thinking abilities, display the
things that I have learnt and put most of them into practice. The challenges of the modern
industrial technological environment
4.1 RECOMMENDATION
I like to use this medium to explore the federal Government at all stage to take this SIWES program
more seriously seen by the students of applied science as a virtual improvement in future of
technology in our nature.
i. Government should also ensure a proper supervision of SIWES student so that the purpose
of the programme will be achieved.
ii. The federal Government should make adequate provision in the annual budget for proper
funding of SIWES in view of the potential of the scheme to contribute to enhancing the
quality of the pool to technical skill available to the economy.
iii. A comprehensive and detail directory of employer who accept students for SIWES is
urgently required to facilitate placement of student in industry.
iv. In order to guarantee quality assurance of institution and the ITF. The ITF should ensure
that the backlog in payment of students allowance is cleared urgently to remove the
negative image being created for SIWES.
4.2 CONCLUSION
The SIWES program expected to be undergone by all students in the school of applied science in
all tertiary institution in Nigeria.
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