Building a Buddy-Up pairing application for the Office of Diversity and International Programs (ODIP) at Ashesi University
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2023-05
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Today's technology has created opportunities for connecting people faster than it used to
two decades ago. Most applications like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have shown us how
meaningful connections can be fostered effectively and efficiently. Understanding how social
networks like Facebook and Twitter are designed and how they handle pairing constraints is
essential to creating other systems that connect people.
This applied project discusses designing and implementing a student buddy-up pairing
system for the Office of Diversity and International Programs (ODIP) at Ashesi University, Ghana.
Every academic year, the ODIP pairs continuing student buddies to serve as mentors with
incoming first-year students. This pairing aims to ensure incoming first-year students transition
well into college life and studies at Ashesi University. Similar to other pairing systems, the
proposed system in this applied project handles several user constraints such as gender, preferred
nationality, and the number of freshers continuing students would like to be paired with. However,
it differs from other matching systems because it applies only a one-way matching relationship.
Only continuing students specify the attributes of freshers they would like to be paired with.
The outcome of this applied project is a buddy-up pairing application system that pairs freshers and continuing students while incorporating specific constraints.
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Applied project submitted to the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Ashesi University, in partial fulfillment of Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, May 2023
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