Hello everyone,
I have been working on a python script to help assign university students to workplace placements.
The problem is that for a given group of students there are only a limited amount of places and each placement location can only caters for a few students.
The ideal solution is that each student is assigned one of these placements, based on their location (minimum possible distance).
My current script estabishes the distance from each placement location for each of these students using google maps apis. I parse this into a list of students, each containing a name and another list of distances from the placement locations.
What I am struggling to solve is how to recursively work out the lowest possible combination of distances for the group of students.
Any help or guidance in working out this function would be greatly appreciated.
Recursion has always done my head in :(
Thanking you all in advance,
Starkles.
