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Question

I\'m currently making a quiz app. When a user starts the quiz random questions show up like you would expect from a quiz app. The problem is, it is not quite random. It does sho

Answer 1

A shuffle may be your best solution:

// Setup
int questionCount = 10; // real number of questions
NSMutableArray *questionIndices = [NSMutableArray array];
for (int i = 0; i < questionCount; i++) {
    [questionIndices addObject:@(i)];
}
// shuffle
for (int i = questionCount - 1; i > 0; --i) {
    [questionIndices exchangeObjectAtIndex: i
        withObjectAtIndex: arc4random_uniform((uint32_t)i + 1)];
}
// Simulate asking all questions
for (int i = 0; i < questionCount; i++) {
    NSLog(@"questionIndex: %i", [questionIndices[i] intValue]);
}


NSLog output:
questionIndex: 6
questionIndex: 2
questionIndex: 4
questionIndex: 8
questionIndex: 3
questionIndex: 0
questionIndex: 1
questionIndex: 9
questionIndex: 7
questionIndex: 5

ADDENDUM

Example with actual text being printed after shuffling

// Setup
NSMutableArray *question = [NSMutableArray arrayWithObjects:
    @"Q0 text", @"Q1 text", @"Q2 text", @"Q3 text", @"Q4 text",
    @"Q5 text", @"Q6 text", @"Q7 text", @"Q8 text", @"Q9 text", nil];
// shuffle
for (int i = (int)[question count] - 1; i > 0; --i) {
    [question exchangeObjectAtIndex: i
        withObjectAtIndex: arc4random_uniform((uint32_t)i + 1)];
}
// Simulate asking all questions
for (int i = 0; i < [question count]; i++) {
    printf("%s\n", [question[i] UTF8String]);
}

Sample output:
Q9 text
Q5 text
Q6 text
Q4 text
Q1 text
Q8 text
Q3 text
Q0 text
Q7 text
Q2 text