Lost on Assignment

Hi. I am struggling with an assignment in a beginning-level C++ course. The course is going very fast, and I am one of the best in the class. As you might imagine, it's a horrible feeling to be stuck!

Let me give you some of the details. The assignment is to build a program that simulates a card game. We are using four classes. They are Card, Deck, Player, and Game. The professor is teaching a method which has calls, "Class in class." It involves using instances of class objects as data members of other classes. I think that it is a form of inheritance.

I am trying different things at the moment. Here is my Class and Deck definitions:

class Card
{
public:
Card();
void setValue(int);
int getValue();
private:
int value;
};

class Deck
{
public:
Deck();
Card randomCard;
int shuffle();
};

I am trying to figure out how to put things together from here. I have a bunch of code that I will not yet post. I'm a bit worried about posting the code properly. Anyone feel like giving some input? I'll certainly appreciate it. Thanks, Steve

>The professor is teaching a method which has calls, "Class in class."
More commonly known as "Containment". It's not a form of inheritance, but you can simulate containment to an extent with private inheritance.

>Here is my Class and Deck definitions
Close. The cards in a deck should be private, and you need more of them:

Code:

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class Card
{
public:
  Card();
  void setValue(int);
  int getValue();
private:
  int value;
};

// A deck of Cards
class Deck
{
public:
  Deck();
  int shuffle();
private:
  Card deck[52];
};

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Then you would have two Players, who have N cards, and a Game that has N players:

Code:

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class Player
{
public:
  Player();
  int play();
private:
  Card hand[5];
};

class Game
{
public:
  Game();
  void run();
private:
  Player players[2];
  Deck gamedeck;
}

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Thanks. Here is the code I have so far. I can show you the assignment, which pretty much states what we should use for data members and member functions. I have conformed to this. For instance, the assignment states that class Deck have no private data members:

#include<iostream>
#include<ctime>
#include<string>

using namespace std;

class Card
{
public:
Card();
void setValue(int);
int getValue();
private:
int value;
};

class Deck
{
public:
Deck();
Card randomCard;
int shuffle();
};

class Player
{
public:
Player();
void enterInfo();
void setName(string);
string getName();
int getTotal();
int addCardValue(Card);
private:
string name;
int total;
};

class Game
{
public:
Game();
void enterPlayerInfo();
void playBlackJack();
Player getWinner();
void showGame(Player);
private:
void drawPlayer();
void drawDealer();
Player user;
Player computer;
};

int main()
{
srand((unsigned int)time(NULL));
Game game;
game.enterPlayerInfo();
game.playBlackJack();
return 0;
}

Card::Card()
{
value=0;
}

void Card::setValue(int newValue)
{
value=newValue;
}

int Card::getValue()
{
return value;
}

Deck::Deck()
{
shuffle();
}

int Deck::shuffle()
{
return rand()%10;
}

Player::Player()
{
name="";
}

void Player::enterInfo()
{
cout<<"Please enter your name: ";
cin>>name;
}

void Player::setName(string newName)
{
name=newName;
}

string Player::getName()
{
return name;
}

int Player::getTotal()
{
return total;
}

int Player::addCardValue(Card some)
{
return getTotal()+some.getValue();
}

Game::Game()
{
}

void Game::enterPlayerInfo()
{
user.enterInfo();
}

void Game::playBlackJack() //work on later
{
drawPlayer();
}

Player Game::getWinner()
{
Player tmpWinner;
//tmpWinner=
return tmpWinner;
}

void Game::showGame(Player both) //work on later
{
}

void Game::drawPlayer() //work on later
{
cout<<"Drawing a hand for "<<user.getName()<<endl; //?
cout<<"Your card was "<<user; //?
}

void Game::drawDealer()
{
}

Thanks, Steve

Here is the assigment. Let me know if you have any trouble with the MS Word file.

Thanks,

Steve

Um, I doubt people will want to look at your assignment...Maybe you have a specific question/problem that you are having difficulty with?

Well, I started off by saying that I wasn't exactly sure how to post. Prelude answered me and gave his insight. I responded with further code outlining my specific problem. I also related how I felt that I needed to clarify the situation, in that my professor has given us a specific way to do this assignment. Therefore, Prelude's idea of using a private data member in class Deck (which I'm sure works well), is unfortunately not applicable.

I appreciate your view that other members of this message board may not be "interested" in my assignment. You will hopefully understand that I thought that posting this would be the next step in giving Prelude insight into my specific area of difficulty.

I will wait a little while to see if I get any other input along these lines. If I do not, I will formulate another approach to asking for advice.

Thanks,

Steve

Quote:

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Originally Posted by smitsky

Well, I started off by saying that I wasn't exactly sure how to post.

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It shows. What she neglected to mention was you need to use code tags. Very few of us will try to understand your program in its posted form -- with no formatting.

Also, you only need to post the portions of the program you are having trouble with, not all 250 lines of code.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by smitsky

I appreciate your view that other members of this message board may not be "interested" in my assignment. You will hopefully understand that I thought that posting this would be the next step in giving Prelude insight into my specific area of difficulty.

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Good assumtion. But as a volunteer army, for us it's sometimes better to zero in on a specific problem, explain what you're trying to accomplish in the associated code, and what it's doing wrong. Somewhat like your first post did. Small and concise.