Create the deck of cards
This first thing we need to do is create a deck of cards. In order to make a deck of cards we must first understand what a deck of cards is.
A pack is made up of 52 cards (excluding jokers)
Each card in the deck has three attributes:
- Its name
- 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,jack,queen,king
- Its value:
- 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13
- Its suit:
- Spades, Diamonds,Hearts,Clubs.
In Python it is easy to create this full deck of cards using 2 lists and a couple of for loops:
Here we have created a list of 52 cards, with each card consisting of a tuple of 2 values:
(name,suit)
Create the helper functions
Once we have created the deck of cards it is useful to create a few helper functions to deal with the pack.
- getRealName – This returns the card’s full name in a human readable form
- getValue – This return’s the card’s value, useful for calculations
Full script
Main Screen Design
Creating the mainScreen
In order to create the main game screen we first need to come up with a plan! You can have a look at my plan to the right of the screen.
Required Functions & Data Structures
From the plan I can see that I am going to need:
Functions
- A MainScreen() function
- A function to display whose turn it is
- A function to display each player’s hand
- A function to get input from the player
- A function to calculate & display who is the winner / loser.
- A function to calculate a player’s score.
Variables
- playerTurn variable to keep track of whose turn it is.
- A round variable to see if it is round one or 2.
Data Structures
- A list for each player to contain the cards that they have been dealt.