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Devise an algorithm to prevent class conflicts
Challenge Type: engineering
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Chegg’s current mobile application helps students search for, rent, and read textbooks on the go. As a new feature, Chegg is thinking about allowing students to input different classes in order to identify any scheduling conflicts. This would be a great way to test combinations of potential classes each semester!

Deliverables

Using the attached class schedules as your dataset, write up an algorithm that would take a few inputs (# of classes you’d like to take, and the names of classes you’re considering) and return groups of courses that fit properly on a schedule. Write the algorithm in any language you’d like, or feel free to write in pseudocode. Regardless of how you choose to write it up, please also include a brief paragraph discussing which programming language you think would be the best option for this task.

    Submissions will be graded on the following criteria:
  • Meets Deliverables
  • Creativity
  • Clarity
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5 Winners
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5 Honorable Mentions
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$150.00 Yingjie Hu University of California, Santa Barbara
$150.00 Michael Peirce Rice University
$150.00 Walker Mills California Institute of Technology
$150.00 Seth Lauer Rice University
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$50.00 Jonathan Miller Harvard University
$50.00 Mir Asif Asgar University of Wisconsin
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$50.00 David Ju University of California at Berkeley
$50.00 Janice Lan Stanford University
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