Java: Texas Hold Em (27)

Okay, back for a second post, it's late and I'm busy though, so deal with it being short! Four short methods totaling about 30 lines of code! We'll be covering a method to deal with each of the blinds and 2 for dealing out cards:

Java: Texas Hold Em (26)

Okay, post 1 of 2 for today! I'll take a break after this to type up the second, since I had this prepared for yesterday! This one contains a few administrative methods, the main game loop, a way to add players and a way to start the game over. The second screenshot is a huge method to take care of actually playing an individual hand. Here goes:

Technical Difficulties

Something is wrong with my computer, so I can't write a post; all my info is on there! It's being fixed, though, so I'll double post tomorrow, see you then!

Java: Texas Hold Em (25)

Okay, so it turns out the ConsoleClient is pretty confusing, and requires the Table anyway, so we'll be doing the Table! Yay! Ooh, there's a problem though. You probably don't remember (I didn't), but when the Hand class was created, I left out the constructor that takes an ArrayList or something as a parameter. We need to go back and fix that so our table runs smoother!

Java: Texas Hold Em (24)

What's up, guys? Today we're back to the card game! We can probably finish it up today, but be aware that the actual act method is long, although it is just a switch statement, so not necessarily complex. I'll leave it to last so we can get the easy stuff out of the way, first.

Java: String Formatting (Pictures!) and the Switch Statement

Okay so, apparently no pictures is a huge no-no, so I'll briefly show you how string formatting works with the power of screenshots! And yeah, looking back on yesterday's post, I agree, it was kinda shitty, so, sorry about that :P

So, string formatting! First, we need to formulate a template string in which data will be entered later!

Java: String Formatting

First off: To Damian in the comments: The game could kick the player when its discovered they're broke, but that's not up to the player class! It's up to either the Table or the ConsoleClient!

Okay! Short post today, just covering string formatting. We saw in some code there was a string returned that looked roughly like:

"This is the message, %s, %f"


...within a method that took 2 more parameters. When printed out this way, the first parameter, the string, is the format of the message to be printed out. A percentage sign followed by a letter denotes where you'll want to put data in afterwards.

Java: Texas Hold Em (23)

Hey hey, time for another post. Last time we left off at getCash for the Player class, after a number of get methods and some other crap. Luckily, there's a buttload more of get methods to go through, so we still have some easy stuff around. Just a heads up though, on Monday we'll go through a larger method that uses the switch-statement.

This week is my final make-up week where I make weekend posts, so tomorrow, as promised, I'll cover string formatting in more detail, and on Sunday I'll actually refresh us all on the switch statement, just in case you need it!

Java: Texas Hold Em (22)

Hi, people! Going to just make this as brief as I can today, don`t feel up to much. The Player class has 177 lines when I got rid of all the (rightfully present) comments, so you can keep track of how far we have to go before the end.

Let`s get right into some methods now, with a few get...() methods and reset...() methods (among others) as you might expect would be needed in a round-based game:

Java: Texas Hold Em (21)

Alrighty, I looked over the ConsoleClient class, and uh, I was lost, so let's do the Player class instead! It's a little long, about 300 lines before I do anything to it, like make it ugly and remove vast amounts of comments, but we'll get through it.

After that, we can just do the Table class, leaving ConsoleClient to the end of the functional code, at which point we have bots and GUIs to do. See, this is why people rarely code from scratch, and just modify other peoples' code, it takes way too long otherwise. But I suppose in the heart of learning...