Before starting the next CodeNewbie challenge, I would like to thank everyone who has participated in the challenge thus far. You have created a wonderful variety of solutions and made this project lots of fun.
Thank you for playing. :)
Secret Santa is a holiday gift-giving tradition.
The idea behind Secret Santa is to create a pool of participants that want to exchange gifts. Each participant is randomly matched with another participant in secret. No one knows which person in the pool will be getting them a gift.
The Secret Santa concludes when the gifts are exchanged and each person gives and receives a gift.
This challenge will ask you to generate Secret Santa partners for a list of people. The levels will begin with picking a name from the list at random and will progress to a full secret santa generator. Please choose your level based on your available time and your comfort level with the challenge.
Below is a sample list of participants:
Choose a person from the list to represent yourself. Write a program that will select a random name from the list that is not the name that you picked.
Example / Use Case
Given the list of participants
and you are Kayla Alva
When you select a person from the list
Then that person is not Kayla Alva
Write a program that will match each person in the secret santa list with another person in the secret santa list. This will allow each person to give a gift and receive a gift. However, they do not need to give a gift to the same person they received a gift from.
Example / Use Case
Given the list of participants
When you run your solution
Then each name on the list will be paired with another on the list
and a name will not be paired with itself
and each name will be paired one time
The sample list contains multiple households that want to share gifts. Assume that each household shares a unique last name. The participants have requested that since they will be gifting within their own households that all participants are paired with a member of another household.
Example / Use Case
Given the list of participants
When you run your solution
Then each name on the list will be paired with another on the list
and a name will not be paired with itself
and each name will be paired one time
and each pair has different last names
Thanks to Edwin Torres for suggesting a Secret Santa challenge. I really like this challenge because it is not only a good exercise but also timely. Perhaps someone will be able to use a solution in their own holiday gift giving.
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