Question

Right now I’m writing a program that will determine the value of a hand of cards. five in total. i have a cardHand object. I’m planning to write an object that compares two objects together in order to determine which hand has a higher value. the two objects that will be compared are objects that contain the possible hand values (one pair, three of a kind… etc).

would stackoverflow see this as a fit method of OOP?

PS: i do know that the algorithm is floating around on the internet but im trying to do this by my self first for the XP.

Answer 1

What you’ll want to do is something like this:

• Create a card class. Add an operator< to this class so you can determine the sorting of individual cards.
• Create a card collection (hand) class that stores a collection of these cards. Define an operator< for this class as well, to determine the sorting of hands.

If you store your cards in an std::multiset in the hand, your cards will group themselves together automatically.

That is, if you insert 2, 7, 3, 4, 3 they will be in this order: 2, 3, 3, 4, 7. This will help you determine things like pairs and tuplets.