🔒 Can I force algorithm on this project????

[stray cypress]

We have a professor and he gave us task to force feed algorithm to our simple projects but I have 0 idea where to put any algorithm

Here's the project in question: https://GitHub.com/hitoyaCute/student_data_tracking

[meager robin]

@stray cypress

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[stray cypress]

I can probably point out the stuff on the front end....

[sweet dome]

That seems like a pretty awful assignment. Like, "recursion" is something you can literally use EVERYWHERE. In fact, some languages like Haskell don't even have regular loops but fully rely on recursion instead

but I guess it matters what they define as an "algorithm"

[stray cypress]

tbh I feel that prof have no idea what algorithm is for...

[stray cypress]

there's no looping here

[regal forge]

[stray cypress]

Everything is a single function call and no complex process

[sweet dome]

https://github.com/hitoyaCute/student_data_tracking/blob/master/Msystem/DB.py#L120C16-L120C71

[meager robin]

Msystem/DB.py line 120

students = [{"id": str(r[0]), "name": r[1]} for r in student_rows]```

[sweet dome]

Hehe :P

[stray cypress]

I mean ._.

[regal forge]

[sweet dome]

Yeah, obviously. I was more joking there

[regal forge]

How do you select the lines like that?

[stray cypress]

With line selector??.

[sweet dome]

Just click on the line number

[regal forge]

o

[sweet dome]

(Then copy the URL)

[stray cypress]

#L<whateverline>

[regal forge]

ty ty

[sweet dome]

If you want to select multiple lines: Select the first line regularly, then shift-click on the final line of your selection

[stray cypress]

@sweet dome should I just create a unused recursive function and call it a day 👀

[sweet dome]

Is that a pre-existing project that is getting extended, or is this all new, just for that one assignment?

[stray cypress]

He wouldn't understand the code anyways

[stray cypress]

it's a different project on different class

The task was like

Shove algorithm on your project and make a video you explaining it

[sweet dome]

My thoughts always shift to some pathfinding algorithms when I hear "greedy" and "backtracking".

[stray cypress]

same but the original project was about webdev and mini capstone

[analog peak]

What about a timetable layout function?
Students enroll in various classes. The classes have so many lectures per week. Arrange the lecture times so that all students can attend all their lectures.

Ignoring "no lectures happen at the same time", this becomes a "search for a working combination" problem, suited to a path walk and various approaches, maybe particularly backtracking: place second subject's lectures, oh they're conflicting, try again.

web front end to enroll students and display timetables

[stray cypress]

No time to implement that ._.

I still suck at frontend

[analog peak]

skip the front end, i though there was meant to be one

[stray cypress]

I'll just do this ig....

[meager robin]

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