//Pre: must pass references to each of the players' piles and playing areas. Player Piles should have only 2 elements (library and discard)
//Post: none
//Description: this method resets the game. it clears all piles and playing areas, shuffles the deck, and deals 26 cards to each player.
public static void ResetGame(ref Pile[] player1Piles, ref Pile[] player2Piles, ref List <Card> p1PlayArea, ref List <Card> p2PlayArea)
{
//Clearing the playing area
p1PlayArea.Clear();
p2PlayArea.Clear();
//Clears all piles
player1Piles[0].ClearPile();
player1Piles[1].ClearPile();
player2Piles[0].ClearPile();
player2Piles[1].ClearPile();
//Define a new pile that will store all cards
Pile pile = new Pile(NUM_CARDS_IN_DECK);
//Add all 52 cards to the deck
for (int i = 0; i < NUM_CARDS_IN_DECK; i++)
{
// i%13 ensures cards only have ranks between 0 and 12. i/13 ensures that there is exactly one card of each rank per suit.
//The first 13 cards will be of suit 0 (casting to Suit makes it Spades), the next 13 will be of suit 1, and so on.
pile.Push(new Card(i % NUM_CARDS_IN_SUIT, (Suit)(i / NUM_CARDS_IN_SUIT)));
}
//Shuffling the deck
pile.Shuffle();
//Deal 26 cards to each player.
for (int i = 0; i < 26; i++)
{
player1Piles[0].Push(pile.Pop());
player2Piles[0].Push(pile.Pop());
}
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//Defining 2 piles per player
//0 is the library, 1 is the discard pile, and 2 is the playing area
Pile[] player1Piles = new Pile[2];
Pile[] player2Piles = new Pile[2];
//Defining the playing areas of each player
List <Card> p1PlayArea = new List <Card>();
List <Card> p2PlayArea = new List <Card>();
//Initializing the piles of each player
for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
{
//The maximum number of cards a pile could contain is set to 52.
player1Piles[i] = new Pile(NUM_CARDS_IN_DECK);
player2Piles[i] = new Pile(NUM_CARDS_IN_DECK);
}
PlayGame(ref player1Piles, ref player2Piles, ref p1PlayArea, ref p2PlayArea);
}