Ep 5 - Building a Deck Shuffler with Ashlyn Knox

Topics covered

• Shuffling a deck of cards using the Fisher–Yates algorithm
• Dealing and discarding cards with:
  • Array.prototype.pop()
  • Array.prototype.push()

Housekeeping

• We’ve created a new project repo:
  • king-of-tokyo-clone
  • Live Demo

Agenda for this week

1. Weekly Journal Review
   • Code Journal
   • Teaching Journal
2. Walk-through of last week
3. King of Tokyo Recap, focusing on the cards
4. Walk-through of the Fisher–Yates algorithm
   • Random permutations are tight!
5. Shuffling a deck of cards as an array of objects:
   • See:
     • Stack Overflow: How to randomize (shuffle) a JavaScript array
     • Cool visualizations of different techniques
6. Deal 3 cards face-up with Array.prototype.pop() and Array.prototype.push().
7. Buy a “Discard” card.
   • Deal a card face-up to replace bought/discarded card.
   • Move card to discard pile.
8. Sweep all three face-up cards.

Relevant repos

• King of Tokyo clone
  • github repo
  • live demo
• Project Boards
• Archive projects
  • King of Calgary (Live Demo)
  • Vanilla Dice Tower (Live Demo)
  • Vanilla Dice Roller WIP (Live Demo)

Cleanup

• Update schedule for next stream (README.md)