card-game

Continuous Assessment for ECM2414 - Software Development, set by Prof. Yulei Wu (Year 2, Semester 1). Uses multi-threading in Java to simulate the playing of a simple card game with numerous players and decks. Developed as a pair programming project.

This work received a final mark of 91/100.

Please see specification.pdf for specification.

Compiling the main program

To compile the main program, do:

javac CardGame.java

Creating a JAR file

To create a JAR file containing the main program, first recompile the program. Then, do:

jar -cfe cards.jar CardGame *

Running the main program

To run the main program, do:

java CardGame

Alternatively, to run from the JAR file, do:

java -jar cards.jar

You will be prompted to input the number of players and then be asked to provide the location of a pack file. Please note that only .txt files are accepted, with all card denominations on a new line, with no whitespace or strings or any other symbols. If the executable tells you that there is a problem with your pack file, please check again and ensure that none of these illegal characters are appearing anywhere.

When referencing the pack file, you may use an absolute or relative filepath. Please note that in order to simply reference the file by name (e.g., simply using "pack.txt"), you must make sure that the pack file sits in the same directory as the .class compiled files or the .jar executable. If there are problems with this, please revert to using the absolute path of the desired pack file.

Testing

The tests are written using JUnit 4. junit.jar and hamcrest-core.jar are provided in the submission to run the tests.

Compiling the tests

To compile the tests, do:

javac --class-path ".;junit.jar" TestSuite.java

Running the tests

To run all the tests, do:

java -class-path ".;junit.jar;hamcrest-core.jar" org.junit.runner.JUnitCore TestSuite

TestSuite is a class that runs all the tests.

Footnotes

When viewing the deck files after a game, it is possible that some decks may have more/less cards. This is normal and to be expected - due to the nature of the multithreaded environment, the game may suddenly end while certain decks have less cards than others.

Please note that the number of players is decided by the user and the pack should be provided by the user as well.

Developed by Talhaa Hussain and Reuben Kurian for the University of Exeter, module code ECM2414.