The Learning Goal for this exercise is to use and understand and know the difference between arrays and array lists.

_Use at least one array defined in your code and two array lists defined by the operation of your code.

_The array should be 52 elements and contain a representation of a standard deck of cards, in new deck order. (This is the order of a deck of cards new from the box.)

_The 2 Array lists can be looked at as a draw deck and a hand deck. The original array is used to populate the draw deck before dealing.

_Write and use a method to build a deck of cards where the array of cards is available in Main.

__Use the clear screen method, clear the screen when your program runs. I will be posting an example to clear screen method at the end of this page.

__Use heading or titles and make the output look nice.

__Back in Main, print out the cards, 4 per line, 1 suit per column. (using a loop might help)

__Use the deck array to create an array list of cards and be able to shuffle those cards.

__Print out the shuffled deck.

__Deal out 5 cards to another array list and the remaining cards should be the draw pile. (you will be taking cards from one ArrayList and adding it to another.)

__Print both the hand (5 cards) and the draw deck (47 cards).

__Go Beyond modify the code to do something fresh. For example, deal 4 hands.

Clear screen method example code:

class myControl { public static void main(String[] args) { cls(); System.out.println("Howdy!"); sleep(5); cls(); System.out.println("Oh, I thought you were someone else."); beep(); sleep(2); System.out.println("GoodBye!"); }// end main

public static void sleep(int s) { try { Thread.sleep(s*1000); } catch(Exception e) { System.out.println("not sleepy"); }//end try }//end sleep

public static void beep() { System.out.println("\007"); }//end beep

public static void cls() { if (System.getProperty("os.name").contains("Mac")) { System.out.println("\033[H\033[2J"); }else{ try { new ProcessBuilder("cmd","/c","cls").inheritIO().start().waitFor(); } catch(Exception e) { System.out.println("Error?"); }//end try }//end if }// cls }// end class