how to practically assign repeating objects from groups - linq

Question

I am having a difficult time finding a proper Linq query to utilize the group output.
I want to populate an existing students List where Student class has 2 properties ID and and int[] Repeats array (can be a list too) to keep how many times they took any of the 4 lectures (L101,L201,L202,L203). So if student takes L101 twice, L202 and L203 once, and but didn't take L201 this should be {2,0,1,1,}
class Student{
public string ID{get;set;}
public int[] Repeats{get;set;} //int[0]->L101, int[1]->L201...
}
In my main class I do this basic operation for this task:
foreach (var student in students)
{
var countL101 = from s in rawData
where student.Id==s.Id & s.Lecture =="L101"
select; //do for each lecture
student.Repeats = new int[4];
student.Repeats[0] = countL101.Count(); //do for each lecture
}
This works; but I wonder how do you make it practically using Linq in case where there are 100s of lectures?

Answer 1

I am using Lamba Expressions rather than query syntax. Then assuming rawData is IEnumerable<T> where T looks something like...
class DataRow
{
/// <summary>
/// Id of Student taking lecture
/// </summary>
public string Id { get; set; }
public string Lecture { get; set;}
}
Then you could do something like...
var lectures = rawData.Select(x => x.Lecture).Distinct().ToList();
int i = 0;
lectures.ForEach(l =>
{
students.ForEach(s =>
{
if (s.Repeats == null)
s.Repeats = new int[lectures.Count];
s.Repeats[i] = rawData.Count(x => x.Id == s.Id && x.Lecture == l);
});
i++;
});
Now if Repeats could just be of type IList<int> instead of int[] then...
var lectures = rawData.Select(x => x.Lecture).Distinct().ToList();
lectures.ForEach(l =>
{
students.ForEach(s =>
{
if (s.Repeats == null)
s.Repeats = new List<int>();
s.Repeats.Add(rawData.Count(x => x.Id == s.Id && x.Lecture == l));
});
});
Things are further simplified if Repeats could just be instantiated to a new List<int> in the Student constructor...
class Student
{
public Student()
{
Repeats = new List<int>();
}
public string Id { get; set; }
public IList<int> Repeats { get; private set; }
}
Then you can do it in one line...
rawData.Select(x => x.Lecture).Distinct().ToList()
.ForEach(l =>
{
students.ForEach(s =>
{
s.Repeats.Add(rawData.Count(x => x.Id == s.Id && x.Lecture == l));
});
});