Chapter 18. Blackjack Iteration 4: Adding a GUI

So far this week you’ve analyzed, designed, and built a Blackjack card game. By working from a simple implementation and iterating towards a more complex application, you’ve been able to add rules and betting capabilities to the game. Today you will continue the iterative process and make improvements to the game’s presentation layer.

Today you will learn how to

  • Apply analysis, design, and implementation when writing user interfaces

  • Apply the MVC pattern to the Blackjack game

Blackjack Presentation

So far the only interface into the Blackjack card game has been a rudimentary command-line-based user interface (UI). Not much has been said about this UI. In fact, very little, if any, analysis or design has ...

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