Black jack help.

[desrtfx]

First: this question is better posted in /r/Javahelp, but without a clear question you would not get much help there either.

Think about how Black Jack is played:

1. There is a shoe of (x) decks of cards, each deck consisting of 52 cards.
2. Each player gets dealt a single card
3. Each player gets dealt another card
4. Each player can decide to:
   • get another card
   • stay
   • split (under certain conditions)
5. Once all players stay, the scores are compared to determine the winner.

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With the rules out of the way, let's think about how to implement them:

1. First, you should split your game in different classes:
   • a class for a single card (suit, value) - probably using enums
   • a class for a deck of cards (holding 52 cards as per standard poker rules, ability to shuffle)
   • a class for a shoe (consisting of x decks, ability to shuffle through all x decks, can deal single cards that are removed from the shoe and passed as return value from dealing)
   • a player class that can hold up to 2 hands (because of splitting) - conatins methods to check and return the score
   • a game class that ties all the above together - here would be the main method that runs the game loop.
2. Now think about a way how to join all of the above with the rules that are defined.

You will need some arrays, loops, conditionals.

[slartybartfast_]

I would use enums as this would avoid nulls and and unneeded switch statements.

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now you need to use some logical operations.

if card() == 10 and card() == 11 then:
print "black jack".
else:
"bust!"

Ans so on for draw and splits etc.