elifsz / automatic_course_curriculum_planner

Automatic_Course_Curriculum_Planner

In this project, automatic course planner is implemented for a curriculum semester of a department. In the curriculum, there are several courses for each year of the curriculum. Your program will assign a classroom and a time slot for each course in the curriculum. Courses in the same year should not be intersected with each other (i.e., see CENG Spring curriculum). There can be some intersection between courses of different years. There are 2 different types of the classroom; big and small. Mandatory courses in the curriculum should be assigned to a big classroom. Elective courses can be assigned to a big or small classroom according to the availability of them. There is a limited number of dedicated classrooms for the department. The number of each type of classroom should be read from a file. In addition, for each weekday there are 2-time slots available; morning and afternoon. So there are in total 10 time slots available to place a course (5 weekdays*2). In the department curriculum, there are some service courses which are given by another department at the university. The time slot of these courses is fixed and predefined. Therefore, you cannot assign different time slots for those courses other than the requested time slot. Furthermore, some instructors may not available for some time slots. Thus, your program should respect these busy time slots for the respective courses. All of these constraints should be taken from a file. You should not assume anything in prior and not use any hard-coded parameter in your code. In the end, your program will produce a file which contains a course schedule for the department. In this schedule, there should not be any intersection between courses for a year of the curriculum and respect to all constraints. If your program cannot find any possible schedule it will print a message “There is no way to make a perfect schedule for the department.”