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Blackjack is a simplified CLI version of the classic card game

Only requirement for this project is python3. To run the game, download or clone the project, go to the project folder and then run the command in your terminal

python3 Main.py

• 🙋‍♂️ Player's Turn
  • The game starts with each player receiving two cards, and the dealer receiving one card face up and one card face down
  • The players then have the option to "hit" and receive additional cards or "stand" and keep their current hand value
  • The player must keep hitting until their hand value is 21 or above, or they can choose to stand at any time
• 🤖 Dealer's Turn
  • Once all players have finished their turns, the dealer reveals their second card and hits or stands according to a set of predetermined rules
  • The dealer must hit until their hand value is 17 or above, and must stand on 17 or above.
• 💯 Score
  • If the player's hand value exceeds 21, they "bust" and lose the game
  • If the dealer busts, all remaining players win
  • If neither the player nor the dealer busts, the hand with the highest value closest to 21 wins
  • If both the dealer and player has the same score, it's a tie

Simple design used to create the game

Demo of the game

• The code should be able to handle multiple players with little adjustment to the main game loop in the future
• Scores need to be recounted each time it is displayed to get the most optimized score due to 1 / 11 condition
• Bust and dealer max hit values should be easily changable from one place
• Card values are stored in a .json file so that card values could be edited with relative ease in the future
• Use suttle animations and the sleep function for delays to make the game feel more natural

• Utilizes Object-Oriented Programming concepts to abstract classes and build up game logic for a clean code architecture
• Implements code reuseability concepts by creating functions that reduce lines of code while simplifying logic
• Score calculating algorithm adjusts for all bust scores if rules and values were to change
• Score calculating algorithm optimizes any number of aces and base score given

• Refactor code to be able to handle multiple players
• Be able to take inputs for bust score
• Optimize dealer hits and stands so that it's as close to bust score as possible just like the player
• Center all text and clear screen each turn
• Create card UI with text, both face up and face down

• Manual unit tests were performed for each class by creating objects at the end of the file
• Test cases were written to assess if all functions performed as expected
• Error checks are done to deal with any read/write errors, invalid input errors, etc
• Classes and member functions passed all test casses

• No automatic testing was done in this case due to time constrants
• Given more time pytest would be a great solution to automate testing for all functions