advisor_selection

advisor_selection.rb

require 'awesome_print'

$student_arr = ["Christopher Mark","Eunice Choi","Jenna Andersen","Jupiter Baudot","Kai Huang","Kim Allen","Mary Engelbrecht","Mike Cerrone","Nathan Park","Paul Etscheit","Rosy Sinclair-Chin(Rosslyn)","Shawn Watson","Andrew Blum","Armani Saldana","Cecilia 'CJ' Joulain","Danielle Cameron","Daniel Woznicki","Deanna Warren","Eran Chazan","Eric Dell'Aringa","Gouron Paul","Isaac Lee","Jeremy Powell","Joseph Marion","Joshua Kim","Kyle Smith","Mark Janzer","Nicole Yee","Ovi Calvo","Peter Wiebe","Steven Broderick","Abraham Clark","Amaar Fazlani","Bernice Anne W Chua","Brian Bensch","Fatma Ocal","Gregory Wehmeier","Jon Clayton","Karla King","Malia Lehrer","Michael Whelpley","Natasha Thapliyal","Nil Thacker","Shawn Spears","Tal Schwartz","Trevor Newcomb","Walter Kerr","William Brinkert","Jamar Gibbs"]

$instructor_arr = ["Hunter", "Shambhavi", "Julian", "Jordan"]

$results_hash = {}


# We want to distribute all students evenly among instructors
# until students_arr is empty
# loop over instructors adding a random student to each
#

def evenly_distrubute_students
  $instructor_arr.each do |advisor|
    $results_hash[advisor.to_sym] = []
  end
  until $student_arr.empty?
    $instructor_arr.each do |advisor|
      $results_hash[advisor.to_sym] << $student_arr.shuffle!.pop if $student_arr.length > 0
    end
  end
end

evenly_distrubute_students
ap $results_hash