(This post is part of my “from scratch” AngularJS project. If you are feeling lost, the first post is here.)
I’m not going to lie, I thought this was going to be a GREAT post! So much information about how to deploy our site to github pages and make it available for the world. The good news is, we did all the hard work in our previous post. The bad news is, this will probably be the shortest post and commit in this series.
(This post is part of my “from scratch” AngularJS project. If you are feeling lost, the first post is here.)
The coding portion of this post was BY FAR the most amount of time and effort I’ve put into any of them so far. My CSS skills were very rusty, so I had to do a lot of research and back and forth to get things right. More advanced front-end people may find some issues with my code, but it is, as always, a work in progress.
While our blackjack game is technically correct, it has all the glimmer of a game written for the TI-82. Don’t get me wrong, I love bootstrap, but for a game, it just isn’t enough.
(This post is part of my “from scratch” AngularJS project. If you are feeling lost, the first post is here.)
In order to make the game fun and realistic, we need an opponent to play against. In any given casino around the world, this opponent is the dealer. This dealer operates on a very limited set of specific rules, which makes writing a virtual version of him easy!
(This post is part of my “from scratch” AngularJS project. If you are feeling lost, the first post is here.)
We’ve got a good setup now, with our gulp file building and running as necessary. Let’s move back to working on our code!
In our GameController we have the ability to deal a hand of cards but we can’t really do anything with it yet. To do so, we need to start putting the blackjack game rules into our application. Let’s create a GameService to start handling these rules for us. The main thing our GameService will do for now will be to take a hand of cards and return the numeric value of that hand. We can then use that value in our controller to enable/disable actions a user can take on the hand.
Adam Weeks 