Quote Originally Posted by Oldman47 View Post
Why would the user need to be asked how many cards he or she is holding?
The game is never played. Only one hand is analyzed by the computer. That's it. Just a set of cards is used as input (as chars), and the score is put as output.

This is such an easy task, it's disgusting to see how lazy this person is.

Look familiar? http://faculty.elgin.edu/gmayer/Blackjack.pdf

It's most likely he's taking a course and just tried rewriting the assignment description a little, or one prof or another ripped it from somewhere did the slight alterations, and the topic starter got stuck with it. If that is the case, and if he doesn't shape up, he'll probably fail the course.