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# create a method called create_groups that, given an array of student names,
# a group size, and a number of groups, will return an array of groups of
# of students with no student in adjacent groups
def create_groups(students,group_size,group_count)
new_student_array = []
i = 0
j = 0
extras = students.size % group_count
while i < group_count do
new_student_array << []
puts "i at beginning of loops: #{i}"
group_size.times do |student|
new_student_array[i] << students[j]
j += 1
puts "i after j+1: #{i}"
end
i += 1
puts "i after doing i+= #{i}"
end
until j > students.size do
puts j
new_student_array[i-1] << students[j]
j += 1
end
students.each_with_index do |student_name,index|
end
new_student_array.shuffle
end
students = [
"Alex Chiu",
"Amanda Himmelstoss",
"Anders Ramsay",
"Bana Malik",
"Brendan Manley",
"Charlotte Chang",
"Christopher Lee",
"Daniel Chang",
"David Bella",
"Edina Vath",
"Emily Xie",
"Greg Eng",
"Ian Miller",
"Iris Lee",
"Ivan Brennan",
"James Tong",
"Jeanne Roniger",
"Joe O'Conor",
"John Richardson",
"Joshua Scaglione",
"Kyle Shike",
"Logan Hasson",
"Manuel Neuhauser",
"Margaret Lee",
"Matt Campbell",
"Michael Polycarpou",
"Mike Spangler",
"Raymond Gan",
"Rosanne Hoyem",
"Sam Yang",
"Samuel Owens",
"Saron Yitbarek",
"Scott Luptowski",
"Vivian Zhang",
"Sonja Hall",
"Stephanie Oh",
"Theo Vora",
"Thomas Surgent",
"Tiffany Peon",
"Trevor McKendrick",
"Vinney Cavallo"
]
puts create_groups(students,10,4).inspect
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