From your lab workstation, use these commands to get started…

 % mkdir pc2
 % cp -p /homes/cs390cp/pc2/pc2v9.ini pc2

 % cd pc2
 % /homes/cs390cp/pc2/bin/pc2team &

Log in using your individually assigned “teamX” account and password. You can work in the current window/directory, creating a subdirectory for each problem.

• A: Poker Hands (Repeated here for those of you who want to try it and those who didn't quite get it last week.)

If you've already solved one or more of these problems, try (1) solving again without referring to your old solution, and/or (2) using a different language (Java or C++). If you want to work on an additional problem from this chapter, let me know.

Hints:

• A: The main trick to this problem is creating a hand evaluation method that returns a simple value that can be compared to other hands. One representation of hand value is as a six-character string, where the first character represents the hand type (e.g., 1 = “high hand”, 9 = “straight flush”) and the remaining five characters are encoded values of the cards (e.g., “A” = deuce, “B” = three, …, and “M” = ace) in order of relevance to the hand type (e.g., list the three-of-a-kind from a full house before the pair, even if the pair is higher).