DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTER BASED LOTTERY PROCESSING SYSTEM

ABSTRACT
Description of a system and peripherals or devices in a computer system in which the operating of such devices is under control of the central processing unit is termed on-line. Because of the efficiency and fast services, this project is equally aimed at creating a computer based lottery which allows entire to be sold over the phone, ATM, POS Machine, E-mail or via kiosks in which participants are invited to choose at least one unique number from a defined range of numbers. The participants can be automated call answering system allowing the use to key in the no. chosen by using the telephone keypad which records the identity or contact details of the participant.
The project highlights the prospects, problems and suggested solution in developing and implementing an online computer based lottery processing system. The write-up will equally acquaint you with the internet technology that made way for on-line computer lottery based processing system platform in where you are allowed to purchased and fill in the application forms.

TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.2 THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1.2.1 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
1.3 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
1.4 METHODOLOGY
1.5 DEFINITION OF TERMS

CHAPTER TWO
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW

CHAPTER THREE
3.0 OVERVIEW OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM
3.1 DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM
3.2 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION
3.2.1 INTERVIEW METHOD
3.2.2 REFERENCES TO WRITTEN TEXT
3.2.3 ELECTRONIC/ON-LINE METHOD
3.3 INPUT ANALYSIS
3.4 PROCESS ANALYSIS
3.5 OUTPUT ANALYSIS
3.6 PROBLEMS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM
3.7 JUSTIFICATION OF THE NEW SYSTEM

CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 DESIGN OF THE NEW SYSTEM
4.1 INPUT SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN
4.1.1 INPUT FORM SPECIFICATION
4.1.2 LOTTERY REQUEST FORM
4.2 OUTPUT SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN
4.2.1 OUTPUT FORM SPECIFICATION
4.3 FILE DESIGN
4.4 SYSTEM FLOW CHART
4.5 SYSTEM REQUIREMENT
4.5.1 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT
4.5.2 HARDWARE REQUIREMENT

CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 IMPLEMENTATION
5.1 PROGRAM DESIGN
5.2 PROGRAM FLOW CHART
5.3 PSUDOCODE
5.4 SOURCE TESTING/PROGRAM
5.5 TEST RUN

CHAPTER SIX
6.0 DOCUMENTATION

CHAPTER SEVEN
7.0 RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
REFERENCES

CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Lottery system is a very wide field of study and can be classified in so many ways such as the U.S.A. lottery system, Kenlucky lottery system, India lottery system, and German lottery system e.t.c. But the study will be limited to the VISA LOTTERY, which is associated with the United States and the most commonest.

WHAT IS THE VISA LOTTERY?
The diversity visa lottery issues 55,000 visas each year by lottery, to nationals of countries considered under represented in the immigrant flow.
Until 1965, our immigration system favoured immigrants who reflected the ethnic characteristics of our society. Heightened concerns about racism brought about by the system civil rights movement led to the scrapping of the system. Ironically, the current visa lottery system is a throwback to the earlier race-conscious system. It structures the immigrant admission system to discriminate among immigrant seeing countries in order to increase the number of immigrants from “underrepresented” countries.
The first visa lottery provision who adopted in 1986, with a set-aside of 10,000 “special visas” for immigrants from countries “adversely affected” by the 1965 immigration act. Over three-fifths of the 10,000 visas went to immigrants from Ireland, Canada and the United Kingdom. They were adversely affected by the 1965 Act only in that residents from those countries first experienced a ceiling that had not affected them previously.
In 1990, a new permanent lottery of 55,000 visas per year was enacted, and a transitional system of 40,000 visas per year (1992 to 1994) was specified of the 108,455 transitional lottery winners who entered the united states through fiscal year 1994, 84% were from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Poland or Canada. Natives of these countries had not been suffering from any discrimination in our past administration of our immigration policy.

1995 marked the beginning of the permanent “diversity” lottery for 55,000 visa per year. Unlike the transitional system, it is supposed to discriminate against countries that have large flows of immigrants already like Mexico and the Philippines. The Act was clearly worded, however, so that the lottery would remain open to the Irish. That is one of the major faults with the lottery system. Because it is “designer immigration” it invites tinkering for or against nationals of a given foreign country.

LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS
In November 1994, by executive agreement, president Clinton accepted to set-up a one-country immigrant visa lottery for Cubans. In November 1997, congress adopted an amnesty for Nicaraguans and Cubans and special screening provisions for other Central Americans who has come illegally to the United States during the revolutionary fighting in their homelands. To offset this adjustment process, the ceiling of 55,000 on lottery immigrants who lowered to until the amnesty process was completed.

1.2 THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
As a limelight, this project aims at going a long way to creating a conducive atmosphere