`# Card Game for Essex Interview

Code interview question: Work with the programing language you are most familiar with.

Create a card game which supports 3 of the operations below.

1. Shuffle cards in the deck: randomly mix the cards in the card deck, and return a whole deck of cards with a mixed order
2. Get a card from the top of the deck: get one card from top of the card deck, return a card, and if there is no card left in the deck return error or exception. 
3. Sort cards: take a list of color as parameter and sort the card in that color order. Numbers should be in ascending order.  i.e. If the deck has a card contains with following order  (red, 1), (green, 5), (red, 0), (yellow, 3), (green, 2) Sort cards([yellow, green, red]) will return the cards with following order (yellow, 3), (green, 0), (green, 5), (red, 0), (red, 1) 
4. Determine winners: 2 players play the game. They will draw 3 cards by taking turns.

Whoever has the high score wins the game. (color point calculation, red = 3, yellow =2, green = 1) the point is calculated by color point * number in the card.  

Testing: Create test cases to test the above operations.

Please put the code in an online repository and provide the link before the interview: github, gitlab, etc.

• Built using Python 3.8.5

• Create card class ✅

• Create deck class ✅

  • takes a list of card colors or suits and number of cards

• Methods

  • shuffle - shuffle deck of cards, return deck ✅
  • get_top_card - return top card of the current deck, return top card or if no cards, throw exception ✅
  • sort_cards(sort_by) - Sorts deck by colors listed in sort_by ✅
    • sort by the colors specified, then numerically ✅
  • score_hand - score a hand of cards, returns score of hand ✅
    • point is calculated by taking card color point (red=3, yellow=2, green=1) times the number on the cards ✅
  • play = play a game of cards ✅
    • Whoever has the high score wins the game ✅
    • play by drawing three cards, calculate each hands score ✅

• Contine writing tests ✅
  • Edge cases
    • non-standard inputs (cards=Red,Green,Blue)
    • bad inputs
    • more than 2 players ✅
      • works with 2, 3 and 4 ✅
• Flesh out objects ✅
• Flesh out play (working) ✅
• Document!! ✅

• 10/29/2020 - 2 hours
• 10/30/2020 - 3 hours
• 10/31/2020 - 4 hours
• 11/01/2020 - 4.5 hours
• 11/02/2020 - 4.5 hours

• Clone repository [email protected]:timmr99/cards.git
• Run the script from the repository clone