/// <summary>
/// Constructor: Initializes a CardDealer obkect
/// </summary>
/// <param name="cardCount">the number of cards the game is going to use</param>
/// <throws>ArgumentOutOfRangeException if the number of cards is not 52, 36, or 20</throws>
public CardDealer(int cardCount = 52)
{
// initalies the card list
dealerCards = new CardList();
// sets the number of cards
NumberOfCards = cardCount;
}
/// <summary>
/// Utility method for copying card instances into another Cards instance-used in Deck.Shuffle().
/// Ths implementation assumes that source and target collections are the same size.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="targetCards"></param>
public void CopyTo(CardList targetCards)
{
for (int index = 0; index < this.Count; index++)
{
targetCards[index] = this[index];
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Clone - Creates a copy of the Cards collection
/// </summary>
/// <returns>the new instance of the collection</returns>
public object Clone()
{
CardList newCards = new CardList(); // creates a cards collection
// copies each card using the depp copy from Card
foreach (Card sourceCard in List)
{
newCards.Add((Card)sourceCard.Clone());
}
// returns the new collection
return(newCards);
}
CardList myCards; // the list of cards
/// <summary>
/// Default Constructor: Initializes a deck of 52 cards
/// </summary>
public Deck()
{
myCards = new CardList(); // initializes a new list
// runs through each suit
for (int suitCount = 0; suitCount < 4; suitCount++)
{
// runs through each rank
for (int rankCount = 2; rankCount < 15; rankCount++)
{
// adds the card with the corresponding rank and suit to the list
myCards.Add(new Card((CardRank)rankCount, (CardSuit)suitCount));
}
}
}
