(Project: Card Shuffling and Dealing) Modify the application developed in Exercise so that...

(Project: Card Shuffling and Dealing) Modify the application developed in Exercise so that it can handle the dealer's hand automatically, but the player is allowed to decide which cards of the player's hand to replace. The application should then evaluate both hands and determine who wins. Now use this new application to play 20 games against the computer. Who wins more games, you or the computer? Have a friend play 20 games against the computer. Who wins more games? Based on the results of these games, refine your poker-playing application. (This, too, is a difficult problem.) Play 20 more games. Does your modified application play a better game?

Exercise

(Project: Card Shuffling and Dealing) Modify the application developed in Exercise so that it can simulate the dealer. The dealer's five-card hand is dealt "face down," so the player cannot see it. The application should then evaluate the dealer's hand, and, based on the quality of the hand, the dealer should draw one, two or three more cards to replace the corresponding number of unneeded cards in the original hand. The application should then reevaluate the dealer's hand. [Caution: This is a difficult problem!]

Exercise

(Card Shuffling and Dealing) Use the methods developed in Exercise to write an application that deals two five-card poker hands, evaluates each hand and determines which is better.

Exercise

(Card Shuffling and Dealing) Modify the application of Fig. 9 to deal a five-card poker hand. Then modify class DeckOfCards of Fig. 8 to include methods that determine whether a hand contains

Fig. 8 DeckOfCards class represents a deck of playing cards.

Fig. 9 Card shuffling and dealing

a) a pair

b) two pairs

c) three of a kind (e.g., three jacks)

d) four of a kind (e.g., four aces)

e) a flush (i.e., all five cards of the same suit)

f) a straight (i.e., five cards of consecutive face values)

g) a full house (i.e., two cards of one face value and three cards of another face value) [Hint: Add methods getFace and getSuit to class Card of Fig.]