Playing Cards in Java

As part of a larger project of making apps that deal with playing cards (Cribbage scores, Poker probabilities, etc.), I've decided to create an open source library for dealing with playing cards and collections of playing cards.

The types I've defined are:

Deck (class)

• has many Cards
• can iterate over the Cards by Rank
• can iterate over the Cards by Suit
• can render itself to a String

Card (class)

• has a Rank
• has a Suit
• can render itself to a String

Rank (enum)

• has an int index
• can render itself to a String

Suit (enum)

• can render itself to a String
• can 'pretty' render itself to a String with fancy UTF-8 characters such as ♣

CribbageCalculator

• takes in a deck and calculates a score
• returns the score
• returns the collection of score descriptions

To Do

• Incorporate SVG Images from vectorized-playing-cards
• Use j2objc to compile this to Objective-C and use in an iOS app