Come up with an API

[floswald]

General

• how do we store the required objects?
• what could be called a parameter, what a model here?
• what inputs do we want to give for creation of each?
• discuss below with examples.

in particular

1. How do we represent \Psi_i, i.e. the set of all possible courses for student i?
2. how do we represent x_i, the courses chosen?
3. these considerations should be informed by how we want to address issue Define Course Demand function d(p) -> demand for each course #4

( notice you can display code nicely by using tripple back ticks before and after the code block - as described in your markdown cheat sheets! :-) )

[floswald]

mutable struct Student
    program :: String
    year :: Int
    time_constr :: Matrix
    prog_constr :: Matrix
    allocation :: Vector{Int}
end

[floswald]

• add funciton that reads data into this type.

[mdesevricourt]

I'm not sure I quite understand what you mean by a function that reads data into this type

[floswald]

1. suppose we were given a spreadsheet with data on students. eg

id	program	year
1	Econ	1
2	Econ	1
3	PolSci	2

also:

2. for each student id an additional set of constraint matrices in a list like

C_time[1] = 
[ student 1's constraint matrix]
C_time[2] = 
[ student 2's constraint matrix]
...

how could we create new Students from the data in those files? Obviouly 2. is widely optimistic, but let's go with this for now.

[floswald]

solves by #14
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