Debugging in Python, part 9: Hands and Decks
MP 150: Modeling a hand of playing cards, and a deck as well.
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We want to look at logical errors, but we need an appropriate codebase to practice against. In the last post we modeled a playing card; in this post we'll build out models for a hand of cards, and a deck of cards. We'll be able to use this codebase in the next few posts to look at a number of interesting logical errors.
Modeling a hand of cards
In many card games, players are dealt a hand of cards. A lot of games start with 5 or 7 cards, but the number of cards in a hand can vary widely.
Here's a first pass at the Hand class:
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