claireweiz / 21s

A command line blackjack gaming program, using Object Oriented Programming concepts

Description

I have divided the README into two sections:

• The first section includes instructions from the Guardian coding exercises.
• The second section details the structure of my code.

Can you beat the dealer at 21?

Model the game

• create a single deck of playing cards
• two players (called Sam and the Dealer) who will play against each other
• each player is given two cards from the top of a shuffled deck of cards

Rules to implement

• determine score of a hand¹
• check if either player has blackjack (21) with their initial hand and wins the game
• if neither player has blackjack then Sam can start drawing cards from the top of the deck
• Sam should stop drawing cards from the deck if their total reaches 17 or higher
• Sam has lost the game if their total is higher than 21
• when Sam has stopped drawing cards the Dealer can start drawing cards from the top of the deck
• the Dealer should stop drawing cards when their total is higher than Sam.
• the Dealer has lost the game if their total is higher than 21
• determine which player wins the game

My solutions

Updated Aug 28, 2023

I used an object-oriented programming structure to create the program

How I did this task:

• Imported the random module
• Created the following classes: Deck, Hand, Card, and Game
• Deck: shuffle the cards and get the deck ready
• Hand: calculate the value (card score)
• Card: present both the card and value
• Game: run the game in the command line

Footnotes

1. Numbered cards are their point value. Jack, Queen and King count as 10 and Ace counts as 11. ↩