//          Randomly chooses groups of students

// Michael Ang for NYUADIM Intro to IM

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// To change the list of students edit the students.csv

// in sketch files

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// let demoStudents = ["Mang", "Jimbo", "Fatima"];

let students; // List of all students

let groupSize = 4; // How many students per group

let groups = []; // Array of groups

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// Called *before* setup to allow loading any

// resources needed by the sketch. Preload waits

// until the resources are loaded before going to

// setup()

function preload() {

  // Load a list of students stored in a text

  // file that has been uploaded to teh sketch files

  // See https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/loadStrings

  students = loadStrings("students.csv");

}

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function setup() {

  createCanvas(800, 500);

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  console.log(students);

  makeGroups(students);

}

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function draw() {

  background(220);

}

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// Print random pairs of items from the list

function makeGroups(students) {

  // Randomize the array

  // See https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/shuffle

  let shuffled = shuffle(students);

  print("shuffled: " + shuffled);

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  // Make groups of students

  let groupNumber = 1;

  let counter = 0;

  while (shuffled.length > 0 && counter < 16) {

    // Make a new group

    let group = [];

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    // Move students to group until group is full or no

    // unassigned students left

    for (let i = 0; i < groupSize; i++) {

      group.push(shuffled.shift()); // Take the first name from shuffled and move to group

      counter++;

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      // Check if we're out of studemts

      if (shuffled.length == 0) {

        // No students left

        break;

      }

    }

    print("Group ", groupNumber, str(group));

    groups.push(group); // Add to global list of groups

  }

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  if (shuffled.length > 0) {

    groups[3].push(shuffled.shift());

  }

}

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function draw() {

  // Set large text with 1.5 line spacing

  let tSize = 20; // Text size

  let spacingY = tSize * 1.5; // Vertical spacing of lines of text

  let textX = 20;

  let textY = spacingY * 2; // Start on second line

  textSize(tSize);

  // Draw text for each group

  for (let i = 0; i < groups.length; i++) {

    let theText = "Group " + (i + 1).toString() + ": " + groups[i].toString();

    text(theText, textX, textY);

    textY += spacingY; // Go to next line

  }

}

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