Re: Shuffled Pokerdeck

From:
"Michael Dunn" <m_odunn@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:36:07 +1100
Message-ID:
<45b6479f$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>
"Martin Krainer" <NOSPAMmartin.krainer@inode.at> wrote in message
news:756ec$45b642b5$557fe3b3$3166@news.inode.at...

Hi all,
Im new to Java, and as Training for me I tried to build an Application,
which returns a shuffled Pokerdeck. (Random from 1 to 52)
Maybe you will laugh, but i needed a whole day to solve it, and I think its
even not good solution.
Well, at least it works, but please could you give me a hint, how to solve
this problem easier.


Collections.shuffle();

simple demo (using numbers 0 to 51 instead of 'Ace of Hearts' etc)

import java.util.*;
class Testing
{
  public Testing()
  {
    Deck deck = new Deck();
    deck.printDeck();
    System.out.println("===");
    deck.shuffleDeck();
    deck.printDeck();
  }
  public static void main(String[] args){new Testing();}
}
class Deck
{
  List cards = new ArrayList();
  public Deck()
  {
    for(int x = 0; x < 52; x++)
    {
      cards.add(new Card(x));
    }
  }
  public void printDeck()
  {
    for(int x = 0, y = cards.size(); x < y; x++)
    {
      System.out.println(((Card)cards.get(x)).face);
    }
  }
  public void shuffleDeck()
  {
    Collections.shuffle(cards);//<-----------------------
  }
}
class Card
{
  int face;
  public Card(int f)
  {
    face = f;
  }
}

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