This project provides a Go implementation for managing and manipulating a deck of playing cards. It includes functionalities for creating a deck, shuffling, drawing cards, and more.

• Create a standard 52-card deck
• Shuffle the deck
• Save the deck to file
• Draw cards from the deck
• Reset the deck

To use this project, you need to have Go installed on your machine. You can download and install Go from the official website.

Once Go is installed, you can clone the repository and install the dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/pgoulding/go-playingcards
cd go-playingcards
go mod tidy

You can run the project using the go run command:

go run main.go

This project includes unit tests for the various functionalities. To run the tests, use the go test command:

go test ./...

Here are some examples of how to use the different functionalities in this project:

Upon starting the program you should be shown a list of Options that yuou can select by entering a numerical menu option:

--- Playing Cards Menu ---
1. Create a new deck
2. Shuffle the deck
3. Deal a hand
4. Save deck to file
5. Show Remaining Cards
6. Quit

This creates a brand new unshuffled deck.

This takes the exsiting deck and shuffles the cards in a random order.

This takes out 5 cards from the deck and shows them to you.

This saves the existing deck to a "_deckfile" file.

This shows the remaining cards in the deck.

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.