Card Game

Our task was to create a card game using the Java language.

Stage 1 Using classes, ArrayLists and methods, we had to create a deck of Cards, using the following classes:

CardGame
• - Contains an ArrayList for the deckOfCards that contains all 52 cards. This is created and populated when the game is constructed.
• - Has a name which is also defined in the constructor.
• - Has a getDeck method that lists out the cards in the deck.

Card
• - My card class • - Has a String symbol (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,J,Q,K,A)
• - Has an int value (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14)
• - Has a toString method that describes the class

Stage 2

I created a CardGame Class where I had implemented all the methods that I used to achieve the following:

• Card dealCard() - takes the card from the top of the deck and returns it
• ArrayList sortDeckInNumberOrder() - sorts the deck in number order (e.g. 2222333344445555 etc) and stores the new shuffled deck back into the deckOfCards attribute
• ArrayList sortDeckIntoSuits() - sorts the deck into suits (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,J,Q,K,A of hearts, then 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,J,Q,K,A of clubs etc.) and stores the new shuffled deck back into the deckOfCards attribute
• ArrayList shuffleDeck() - shuffles the deck into a random order and stores the new shuffled deck back into the deckOfCards attribute