CONFERENCE TRACK MANAGEMENT
Challange You are planning a big programming conference and have received many proposals which have passed the initial screen process but you're having trouble fitting them into the time constraints of the day -- there are so many possibilities! So you write a program to do it for you.
• The conference has multiple tracks each of which has a morning and afternoon session. • Each session contains multiple talks. • Morning sessions begin at 9am and must finish by 12 noon, for lunch. • Afternoon sessions begin at 1pm and must finish in time for the networking event. • The networking event can start no earlier than 4:00 and no later than 5:00. • No talk title has numbers in it. • All talk lengths are either in minutes (not hours) or lightning (5 minutes). • Presenters will be very punctual; there needs to be no gap between sessions.
Approach This solution is written in Ruby. The source files are located under the lib directory.
To run the program, at a terminal prompt, run the /lib/conf_planner.rb file. On a Mac, at the root of the project folder, you would type: ruby lib/conf_planner.rb.
The data input file is located at the root and named "test_input"