Need help with a card game in C.

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Need help with a card game in C.
First of all I have to create two data types. The first is "Card" using a struct to model a single card and using two seperate enum's for the suit and rank. The second data type is Card Deck which supports any number of packs of cards entered by the user(Must use dynamic memory allocation). Need CardDeck Operations such as shuffle, sorting, adding or removing cards, etc..

If i got this amount done, I think I would be able to do the actual game development myself. Any help is appreciated

c

What I have tried:

This is what I have so far..

C

#include <stdio.h>



// Data Type "Card"

struct Card
{
	char suit;
	char rank;
};


enum suit  { Club, Spade, Heart, Diamond};

enum rank { Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Jack, Queen, King, Ace};

Posted 14-Nov-16 3:06am

Member 12849609

Updated 19-Nov-20 5:58am

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F-ES Sitecore 14-Nov-16 9:14am

We're not here to do your homework for you.

Member 12849609 14-Nov-16 9:16am

This isn't my homework, I just want to know how to do it

F-ES Sitecore 14-Nov-16 9:35am

"Must use dynamic memory allocation" - not homework, sure thing :)

[no name] 14-Nov-16 9:14am

Help with what?

Member 12849609 14-Nov-16 9:22am

I need to know if my first bit of code is right. And i need to know how to make sure my DataType CardDeck can support any number of card decks to be used in the game, which is entered by the user.
Also I need to know how make operations which are useful for Deck of Cards (e.g. shuffle, sorting, adding or removing a card) and adding a function that implements the operation.

[no name] 14-Nov-16 9:28am

Looks right to me. The rest of your comment are separate questions and we can't teach you programming over the internet.

Richard MacCutchan 22-Nov-16 6:24am

Just updating your question like that is not helpful. You really need to start thinking about what your game is meant to do. Then figure out things like how to create a hand of cards, how to deal them to each player, etc. This is not just about coding, it is about finding how to solve your problem in logical steps.

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2016-11-14T03:22:00

Solution 1

Well, you defined the enumerations and a data structure. Now you need to add some real code (that is functionality). Try, for instance, to implement card sorting in the deck. We would be glad to help on that, once you started and possible get stuck.

Posted 14-Nov-16 3:22am

CPallini

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2016-11-14T03:46:00

In your struct you define suit and rank as char types. Then below that you define two enum types suit and rank which just serves to confuse. Define your enums first, and then use those types (but with different names) as the variables in your structure. You can then set both types inside each card that you create.

So from that you can create CardDeck and Hand, both of which would contain arrays of Cards (52 for the CardDeck, and whatever number for the Hand). Shuffling the deck just needs a randomiser to select one of the 52 and create a new array of shuffled cards ready to deal.

The other functions should not be too difficult to figure out.