unemployed / sharpdeck

C# Library for a generic deck of cards

SharpDeck

C# Library for a generic deck of cards. Source is carefully designed to be efficient and simplistic, whilst following industry programming guidelines.

Current functionalty includes:

• Jokers
• Shuffling
• Dealing Top Card
• Peeking Top Card
• Indexer access

Future functionalty includes:

• Specialty Cards (Pokemon, MTG, YuGiOh, Trading Card etc.)
• Different types of Shuffles
• Splitting deck
• Casino-style deck building - multiple decks compose a larger deck

Example Usage

Add SharpDeck to your project references.

static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            SharpDeck deck = new SharpDeck();
            Console.WriteLine("There are " + deck.Cards.Count + " cards in this deck.");

            Player player1 = new Player(); // Player class for example only
            Player player2 = new Player();
            player1.hand = deck.Deal();
            player2.hand = deck.Deal();

            Console.WriteLine("Player 1 has the " + player1.hand.ToString() + ".");
            Console.WriteLine("Player 2 has the " + player2.hand.ToString() + ".");
            Console.Read();

        }

Contributing

• Feel free to contribute. Fork & make a pull request
• Unit tests currently have ~97% coverage. Please write tests for your contributions.

This is an easy to work on side project that can help developers reconnect with simple object-oritented design.