CHAPTER III

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND

Technicality of the project

This chapter discusses the technicality of the project by which it

describes the type of the project to be developed and its functionality. It also

represents the type of application in the development of the project.

The figure above is the project framework of the study. It shows that to

be able to avail a scholarship, the applicant or student must fill-up necessary

pre-application requirements, after filling up, it will be assessed by the created

model using decision tree classification. If the applicant is qualified he or she

will be submitting or uploading secondary requirements before granting a

scholarship. However, once an applicant does not meet the set rules on the
model, he or she will get a feedback on areas where he or she failed to be

qualified.

The Decision Support System for Online Scholarship Application through

classification using Decision Tree algorithm is a system that can be

manipulated through the use of Windows Based personal computer. It’s main

purpose is to assess the pre-application requirement of applicants (students).

The Hypertext Preprocessor (php) will be used to develop console and

graphical user interface of the “Decision Support System for Online

Scholarship Application through classification using Decision Tree algorithm”

and will be operationalized under Windows 7 operating system as its minimum

requirements for the information system.

The overall functionality of this information system will beneficial to the

department because it lessens their work specially in assessing pre-application

requirements particularly in the ethnicity, gender and yearly income of each

applicant. It can also be an advantage to the applicants because the system

uses online technology where every aspiring applicant can transact online, the

applicant also gets an immediate feedback of their scholarship application.

Details of the technologies to be used

The scope of this section is the discussion on the technology used on

how the proposed system will work and the necessary details or the

requirement on running the system.

 MySQL. The researchers will create a database. The researchers choose

MySQL because it is open source software and it has the features that
 use a very fast thread-based memory allocation, and it is relational
(RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number
of databases.

 XAMPP. The researchers will use XAMPP because it is a free open source
cross-platform web server solution stack package consisting the
following:

 Bootstrap. Bootstrap is a web design platform that is used to layout and

design the system interface.

 Adobe Photoshop. The research will used Adobe Photoshop because it

used for editing images and creating logo and buttons for the design.

 AJAX. The researchers will use AJAX because it is a new technique for
creating better, faster, and more interactive web applications with the
help of XML, HTML, CSS and Java Script.
 jQuery. The researchers will use jQuery because it is a JavaScript library
that allows web developers to add extra functionality to their websites. It
is open source and provided for free under the MIT license. In recent
years, jQuery has become the most popular JavaScript library used in
web development.