Milo Interview

Written: May 2010

This package provides two implementations (functional and imperative) of a program for assigngin a list of products to a list of customers to maximize the suitability of the products for the customers.

Suitability is computed as follows:

• If the length of the product name is even, the base suitability score (SS) is the number of vowels in the customer's name multiplied by 1.5.
• If the length of the product name is odd, the base SS is the number of consonants in the customer's name multiplied by 1.
• If the length of the product name shares any common factors (besides 1) with the length of the customer's name, the SS is increased by 50% above the base SS.

The Hungarian/Munkres algorithm is used to solve the assignment problem. Implementation of the Hungarian algorithm based on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_algorithm http://github.com/bmc/munkres/blob/master/munkres.py

USAGE: python main.py [mode]

Modes (defaults to imperative): functional Run using the functional version of the program imperative Run using the imperative version of the program

Example: python main.py imperative cust.dat prod.dat