Go Fish (arrays) Lab

Objective

The objective of this lab is to create the beginnings for a java-based go-fish game. We DO NOT expect a fully functioning go-fish game. What we do expect is that you create a main function and various methods that will accomplish the following goals:

• Create variables representing the POND, the PLAYER and the COMPUTER
  (Hint: you may want to declare these as final ints and initialize them to 0, 1 and 2 respectivley. You could use these values later in your program to indicate if a card is located in the POND or in the hand of the PLAYER or COMPUTER)
• Place all cards in the deck into the pond (indicate that all cards are located in the pond)
• Get a card from the pond and place it in the user's or computer's hand (find a card in the pond and indicate that it is now in the hand of the user or the computer)
• Show the cards that are in the deck (we want to see all 52 cards with their suit and rank)
  See the hint regarding getCardName()
• Show the cards that are in the hands of the PLAYER and COMPUTER

Hints

• You can implement this lab without the use of two-dimensional arrays
• It may be easier to create a getCardName() method to determine the card name from the position in the deck. This function will be very familiar if you remember the change-maker lab

Given Code

public class GoFish {
  public static int[] cardLoc = [insert code here]
  
  public static String[] suitName = [insert code here]
  public static String[] rankName = [insert code here]
  
  
  public static final int POND = 0;
  public static final int PLAYER = 1;
  public static final int COMP = 2;
  
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    clearDeck();
    for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++){
      getCard(PLAYER);
      getCard(COMP);
    } // end for loop
    showDeck();
  
    showHand(PLAYER);
    showHand(COMP);
  
  } // end main
} // end class def

Sample output

0) Ace of Spades: 0
1) Ace of Hearts: 0
2) Ace of Clubs: 0
3) Ace of Diamonds: 0
4) Two of Spades: 0
5) Two of Hearts: 1
6) Two of Clubs: 0
7) Two of Diamonds: 0
8) Three of Spades: 0
9) Three of Hearts: 0
10) Three of Clubs: 0
11) Three of Diamonds: 0
12) Four of Spades: 0
13) Four of Hearts: 0
14) Four of Clubs: 0
15) Four of Diamonds: 0
16) Five of Spades: 0
17) Five of Hearts: 1
18) Five of Clubs: 0
19) Five of Diamonds: 2
20) Six of Spades: 0
21) Six of Hearts: 0
22) Six of Clubs: 0
23) Six of Diamonds: 0
24) Seven of Spades: 0
25) Seven of Hearts: 0
26) Seven of Clubs: 2
27) Seven of Diamonds: 1
28) Eight of Spades: 0
29) Eight of Hearts: 0
30) Eight of Clubs: 0
31) Eight of Diamonds: 2
32) Nine of Spades: 0
33) Nine of Hearts: 0
34) Nine of Clubs: 0
35) Nine of Diamonds: 0
36) Ten of Spades: 0
37) Ten of Hearts: 1
38) Ten of Clubs: 0
39) Ten of Diamonds: 0
40) Jack of Spades: 0
41) Jack of Hearts: 0
42) Jack of Clubs: 2
43) Jack of Diamonds: 0
44) Queen of Spades: 0
45) Queen of Hearts: 1
46) Queen of Clubs: 0
47) Queen of Diamonds: 0
48) King of Spades: 0
49) King of Hearts: 2
50) King of Clubs: 0
51) King of Diamonds: 0

Two of Hearts
Five of Hearts
Seven of Diamonds
Ten of Hearts
Queen of Hearts

Five of Diamonds
Seven of Clubs
Eight of Diamonds
Jack of Clubs
King of Hearts

Blackbelt

Use what you have created and extend it to actually implement a working go-fish game. If go fish isn't your favorite game, you can tranfer what you have created to make several other popular card games such as war or blackjack.