Originally designed to work with to simulate online poker with an ASP.NET front end and a backend connected to a MySQL database in collaboration with Abdul Kareem. The poker part of that project was separated and now adapted as a command line application. It is hoped that anybody could employ this code to make a traditional card game and expand it as needs be.
Can be sumarised as: A Table maintains a Deck of Cards which it deals to Hand objects.
The deck contains a deck of cards and controls access to them. It is tasked with creating 52 standard playing cards, shuffling itself and returning a card when requested. It shuffles through an implementation of the Fisher-Yates shuffling algorithm.
Cards are simple objects that contain a Suit, Value and Name (which combines the 2 as a string)
A Hand is only a collection of Card objects. Calling GiveCard(Card) allows you to add to it.
The Table has a deck object and functions as a mediator between the deck and various hands, tasked with dealing cards via the DealCardTo(Hand) method. It's main function however is to evaluate any given hand of cards and returns the best possible combination of cards with EvaluateHand(List<Card>)
It displays the cards in any given hand as well in a suitable format. This reposibility may be moved to the Hand itself as an instance method. Both approaches make thematic sense however a Hand should probably look after it's own affairs.
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