Generates pairs for pair programming, that are guaranteed to not repeat.

Make a local copy.

git clone https://github.com/asimjalis/pairmaker
cd pairmaker

Edit the students.txt file and put one student name per line. Here are some example students.

Alexander
Ben
Cassandra
Dana

For today's pairs run:

./pairmaker.py today

Uses round-robin tournament algorithm as described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_tournament.

./pairmaker.py [OPTIONS]

./pairmaker.py 0426          Pairs for 04/26
./pairmaker.py today         Pairs for today
./pairmaker.py help          Usage message

• Looks for students.txt in directory where script running from
• File students.txt must contain student names one per line