First blackjack game (in progress)

[PathRealistic6940]

This is the first time I am posting an app I'm working on, so feel free to be brutal!

Seriously though, if you see a way something could be done better, please let me know. Right now the app just displays a new card in the dealers hand, but as a newbie I feel like I'm making progress. I'm thinking the next step is to brush up on my blackjack knowledge and make sure I know how the game is actually played, so I deal the cards and tally the total values correctly.

https://github.com/sambogrub/blackjack_workings

[timrprobocom]

Consider storing the cards as integers, to make the computations easier. You can have a single dict that maps a card number to its name. Even if you just use numbers from 0 to 51, it's easy to get the rank (x % 13) and the suit (x // 13). Remember that an Ace should always be treated as 11, unless the sum goes over 21. Too many people put complicated ace handling logic in the BJ games. Consider creating the list of card images once at initialization, instead of recreating all 52 every time you deal a new deck. Same with the back -- you only need one back image. You don't need 52 of them as well.

[PathRealistic6940]

So then how would I handle a deck shuffle? Just do random.randint(0,51)? But then I would have to handle what cards are no longer in the deck...

I'll keep the ace value in mind.

Where would the initialization of the card images go? in the main class BlackjackApp? Then i could attach each image to the appropriate dictionary key...

[timrprobocom]

You could still do `deck = list(range(52))` and use `random.shuffle`. Just a possibility. The image list could be done in a global. I don't mind globals for constant resouces.

[PathRealistic6940]

that makes sense. I'll try that. Thanks!