Tia's Blackjack App

This game was getting to be fun to create! I encountered many problems along the path of creating this game, I resolved many but, not all of them.

Blackjack app revised milestones

Allow user input
Display player’s hand
Allow user to hit or stay
Display the player’s hand and dealer’s hand
Compare value of player’s hand vs. dealer’s hand in order to determine who is the winner
Show “congratulations”, “you bust!” or “dealer wins” type of feedback for user
Allow user to play again

Reflection:

Day 1 (5 Jun 2018): We had to select whether we were going to create a drawing or blackjack app. I chose a blackjack app because it sounded daunting. Why not take on a daunting task within the “safety” of a learning environment, right?! I worked with WildGinger23 to create my app milestones. He gave me several great ideas for . Had function working to deal player two cards with a randome value from 1-10 then print the value however, I noticed some redundancy and tried to change my code to use a function within a function. Once I made that change, my program stopped running ☹ I now can not recall what I did the first time so, I will go to bed and try again tomorrow.

Day 2 (8 Jun 2018): Had to take a day for a mental break. I was able to fix my program so that it would display the player’s hand. Yay!!

Day 3 (9 Jun 2018) Was able to get while loop established. Handled the easier items first like ending the loop when the user says no. I decided to create a list of the player’s random cards dealt to their hand. I think this should allow me to sum the player’s hand. I created a function to deal another card to the user, however instead of picking a new random number, the program is just using the first random number that was selected

#set up while loop
while still_playing:
  user_hit_stay_choice = input("Would you like to take another card? (y/n)")
  if user_hit_stay_choice == "y":
    still_playing = True
    deal_another_card
    print ("Your hand now has a total value of ",sum(player_hand))

Day 4 (10 Jun 2018) Stepping away from my computer helped because I came up with an idea of how I could change my while loop so that hopefully the program will function as I intend when the user selects the option to take another card. I am going to change my while lpp

Problem solving techniques:

Utilizing a separate trinket where I would test out one functionality in my code. For instance, I utilized code in a separate Trinket to test my idea to use a list to store the value of the player’s hand. I also utilized a separate Trinket to test my idea of using a for loop to allow the user to play again. Here’s some of the ask_to_play_again code I wrote.

# def ask_to_play_again ():
user_new_game_choice = input("Would you like to play again? (y/n)")

# ask_to_play_again ()

for answer in user_new_game_choice:
  deal
  print("new game")
  player_hand.clear ()
  player_hand.append(random.choice(card_deck))
  print (sum(player_hand))

Tried using a function and also tried using a variable to deal a single card, could not get program to add a new random card value. Though it was repetitive, decided to remove the function and variable.

Problem that dealer would be dealt a hand of 21 or higher when only two cards should have been dealt.- need to figure out why this is.

Day 5 (11 Jun 2018) Trying to fix one problem caused me to create an error where my program would no longer run. I did not create a duplicate so needless to say this was very frustrating since I was beginning to run out of time and had many things to work on.

Here’s the embedded Trinket: