On 10/1/2013 12:51 PM, Floyd Resler wrote:
Here's my task: A group of kids is going to be staying with different host
families throughout the next 8 months. The number of kids staying with a host
family can range from 2 to 10. When deciding which kids should stay together
at a host family, the idea is for the system to put together kids who have
stayed with each other the least on past weekends. So, if a host family can
keep 5 kids, then the group of 5 kids who have stayed together the least will
be chosen.
I can't think of an easy, quick way to accomplish this. I've tried various
approaches that have resulted in a lot of coding and being very slow. My idea
was to give each group of kids a score and the lowest score is the group that
is selected. However, this approach wound of iterating through several arrays
several times which was really slow. Does anyone have any ideas on this puzzle?
Thanks!
Floyd
Whatever solution you're going with will probably involve a relational
database of some sort.
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