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High School Class Scheduling Problem

A Genetic Algorithm can Minimize Teacher and Student conflicts.

Creating class schedules for a high school was something I struggled with from 1987 to 1989. The closest I ever got to a solution resolved conflicts by programmatically throwing darts at a dartboard. It wasn’t until years later that I learned of Genetic Algorithms (GA) and thought that they would…