Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition

... Card dealCard() { 45         // determine whether Cards remain to be dealt
46         if (currentCard < deck.length) {
47            return deck[currentCard++]; // return current Card in array
48         }
49         else {
50            return null; // return null to indicate that all Cards were dealt
51         }
52      }
53   }

DeckOfCards class represents a deck of playing cards.

DeckOfCards Constructor

The class’s constructor uses a for statement (lines 20–23) to fill the deck instance variable with Card objects. The loop initializes control variable count to 0 and loops while count is less than deck.length, causing count to take on each integer value from 0 through 51 (the deck array’s indices). Each Card is instantiated and initialized with two Strings—one from the faces array (which contains the String ...