#README for BlackJack City!

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###Description: BlackJack City is a simple one-player Blackjack game.

Upon loading the site, a welcome screen is displayed and waits for the user to click the start button. The click event handler fades the welcome screen out and calls the shuffle function using jQuery. The shuffle function calls a function which generates the deck of cards via a card constructor function, and then uses the "_.shuffle" method from Lodash to shuffle the deck.

Clicking the "deal" button resets the cards, calls the deal functions, calls the function that renders the cards, and calls the function that calculates and displays the scores. Clicking the "hit" button does the same thing without resetting the state of the game. Clicking the "stay button" calls the deal function for the dealer's cards, renders the dealer's cards, and calculates and displays the score for the dealer.

At this point, the "whoWon" function is called to check the scores and notify the player about the results of the hand.

###Technologies Used:

• HTML/CSS
• Javascript for game logic
• jQuery for DOM manipulation and event handlers
• Lodash for _.shuffle method

Gist

###Getting Started: BlackJack City follows the standard rules of Blackjack, leaving out some more complex actions for the sake of simplicity (such as doubling down or splitting a hand). The object of the game is to play against the dealer and get a score as close to 21 without going over. All number cards have their respective values, all face cards have a value of 10, and the Ace can be either 11 or 1. The dealer will stand at 17.

Once the player clicks on the start button, the welcome screen fades out to reveal the Blackjack table. The boxes labeled "Dealer's Cards" and "Player's Cards" are where the dealer's and player's cards will show up respectively once the game has started. Under each box is a smaller box that shows the calculated score of the hands once the game has begun.

Clicking the "Deal" button starts the game and two cards are dealt out to the Player and Dealer. The Player has the option to either "Hit" and receive an additional card or "Stay" which turns the play over to the dealer. Once play has completed, an alert box will pop up to communicate the results to the Player.

###Unsolved Problems:

• The pop up alert box notifies the player of the result of the game before the cards are rendered to the screen.
• The player can keep Hitting even though the game is over.

###Next Steps/Planned Features:

• Edit code to take out repetitive functions
• Chips and a Betting system
• Multiple Hands
• Multiple Decks
• Animations
• Option to Double Down
• Option to Split cards
• Additional styling
• Responsive design
• Replace Alert Box with custom designed notification
  • Fix notification showing before cards rendered

#####Special shoutout to Ezra and Vincent for all the help!