ITEC 120 program 4

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Assignment 4 - What a deal Submit your program to the RU09 folder in your directory on neelix.

Description: You'll write a program to deal a hand of cards.

The Card class:
Write a class to represent a Playing card. A card will have 2 pieces of instance data, one to represent the suit (clubs, diamonds, hearts, or spades), and one to represent the rank (2-10, J, Q, K, A). When a playing card is created, the suit and rank are randomly assigned.

The methods:

constructor - randomly assigns a rank and suit.
equals - tests to see if two cards are equal to each other. Two cards are the same if they have the same suit and rank.
compareTo - tests to see if this card is the same, less than, or greater than the other card.
toString () - returns the rank and suit as a string. Examples: 6C JD KS AH 10S

The program4.java driver:

You will write a driver program which will deal the number of cards specified by the user.
The driver program will generate the number of cards specified by the user and store them in an array.
The driver will sort the array.
The driver will print each card in the array.
The driver will ask the user if they'd like to deal another hand and if so, repeat.

Assume you are working with a single deck of cards. So, you will never have 2 of the same card in a hand. When you deal the cards (create them and put them in the array) you must check to see that the card has not already been dealt. You'll use the .equals method to check all the previously dealt cards to make sure your new card does not match one of them. (If it does, you need to create another one.)

To sort the array, implement the Comparable class and use the insertionSort method in this Sorts.java class.

The order of the cards are this:

First, clubs: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A
Diamonds next: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A
Then Hearts: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A
And Spades: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A

So, for example the 2 of Spades is greater than the 9 of clubs.
The Ace of Diamonds is greater than the King of Diamonds.
The 2 of Hearts is greater than the Ace of Diamonds.

Here's a sample run:

Program outputs:	How many cards would you like?
User inputs:	5
Program outputs:	6C AC 10H 6S 8S Would you like to deal another hand? (y or n)
User inputs:	y
Program outputs:	How many cards would you like?
User inputs:	56
Program outputs:	You must choose a number between 1 and 52.
User inputs:	7
Program outputs:	4C 6C 6D 9D KD JS AS Would you like to deal another hand? (y or n)
User inputs:	n

TURNING IN YOUR PROGRAM: You will turn in two files. You'll have the driver program, named program4.java, and the Card class, named Card.java. Submit both files to neelix in the appropriate folder.