Create card struct

[dnsbty]

We'll want to create a struct to represent a card.

I think these should have three keys:

• color: :red, :yellow, :green, :blue
• number: :one through :twelve, :wild, :skip (not sure on the key for this one, open to suggestions)
• value: one of 5, 10, 15, 25 to be used for scoring

[brettbeatty]

For wild and skip, color should just be nil?

What would you think of a new/2 function like this?

Card.new(:wild)
#=> %Card{color: nil, number: :wild, value: 25}

Card.new(:seven, :blue)
#=> %Card{color: :blue, number: :seven, value: 5}

And do we want to store values on the card or just get those with a function when we need values?

[dnsbty]

I looked at the official rules and it looks like a skip is technically a blue card so you can play it that way for seven cards of one color. And wilds each have a color as well but it isn’t really important for anything but display.

As far as the value though I think your idea makes sense since that’s really just a calculation based off of the number on the card. So I think the new function makes sense but we’ll want the color included every time.

[dnsbty]

I guess the color wouldn’t necessarily need to be included if the first parameter is :skip but I don’t know if it’s worth making an exception for that particular case

[brettbeatty]

I didn't know that about skips

What would you think about renaming :value to :score (the concept/function since it won't be a key) and :number to :value? I don't know which I like better for the wild/skip cases

[dnsbty]

Yeah I think value makes a lot more sense for that key