Assignment #2 Multi-player Card Game Simulation

Date Assigned: Feb. 7, 2000

Date Due: Feb. 17, 2000

Overview: You are supposed to extend the card game example in the textbook (also in the handout) to multi-player version with slightly complex rule. For this assignment, you are required to use either subclassing or interface of which specification is given below.

Game rule: A game consists of a number of rounds between N players. At the start of each game, the equal number of cards is handed to N players. Obviously this is simply 52/N. The remaining cards are turned face up and put on the card table so that every player can see them. In each round of a game, each player plays a single card in turn. You should randomly choose the first player of the first round. This player decides lead suit of the round by playing a card of his choice. The player who plays the highest card of the lead suit wins a round. The winner of each round plays the first card of the next round. Naturally a player who wins the most round is the winner of the game.

Player strategy: Players are constantly faced with several decisions to be made in every round.

A player might randomly plays a card that follows the lead suit.
A player might always play his/her highest card that follows the lead suit.
A player who does not have a card of the lead suit should make a decision about the best card to discard.
A player might discard the lowest card of the lead suit, if he/she is unable to win the round.
… And so on.

Requirement:

Design a base class named Player that contains the necessary methods for any card player. Alternatively you may want to design Player interface.
Develop at least three subclasses of Player, which has different combination of decision strategies. In case you design Player interface, you need three different classes for different types of player.
Use command-line input as the number of players.
Comment every your java class file according to javadoc format. (See the textbook)