Card Game Task Using Classes

Ive began to write a Write a program which will represents a standard playing card.

Every card has a value and a suit.

Every Playing Card Has a Value And A Suit

Values are either in the range 2 to 10 or one of the face cards – Ace, King, Queen and Jack.

The standard suits are Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts and Spades.
The PlayingCard class must have the following public methods

Now i need to set the values of the faces:

• Jack has the value eleven
  
• Queen has the value twelve
  
• King has the value thirteen
  
• Ace has the value fourteen

The way i have done this is use the final method:

This is my code for the PlayingCard.java

 

/*
 Program Title: PlayingCard
 Author: applemad20
 Created: 02 December 2012
 Version: 1.0
 */



/**
 * DESCRIPTION OF CLASS HERE()
 *
 * @author GethynJones
 * @version 1.0
 */

public class PlayingCard
{

    private int value;
    private int suit;
    
    public final int JACK = 11;
    public final int QUEEN = 12;
    public final int KING = 13;
    public final int ACE = 14;
     

    /**
     * Gets The Current Card Value
     *
     * @return The Current Card
     */
    public int getValue()
    {
        return value;
    }

    /**
     * Gets The Current Value Of The Suit
     *
     * @return The Current Suit
     */
    public int getSuit()
    {
        return suit;
    }

    
    /**
     * Returns The toString Representation Of The Class Data
     * @return String For Printing
     */
    @Override
    public String toString()
    {
        return "PlayingCard [ value = " + getValue() + " suit = " + getSuit() + "]";
    }

    /**
     * Returns The string Format On How The Data WIll Be Printed On Console
     * @return String.format
     */
    public String format()
    {

        return String.format("%-30s %8.2f", "Gethyn", 2.33);
    }
    
    /**
     * Tests Whether This Card Is Equal To Some Other Card
     * @param card The Card To Be Tested
     * 
     * @return returns true If The Suit And Value Of The Test Card Is 
     * Equal To The Suit And Value Of This Card Otherwise false If returned
     */
//    public boolean equals(PlayingCard card)
//    {
//        
//    }
//    
    public PlayingCard(int value, int suit)
    {
        this.value = value;
        this.suit = suit;
    }

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        // TODO code application logic here
    }
}

Now i need another class called PlayingCardTester.java.

I have created this but it has no content so far.



When i call the to String method it should bring up the results like this:

PlayingCard[value=King, suit=Hearts]

The part that i am on is the equals method:

/**
     Tests whether this card is equal to some other card
     @param card the card to be tested
@return returns true if the suit and value of the test card is equal to the suit and value of this card otherwise false is returned
*/
public boolean equals(PlayingCard card)
{ ... }

Im not sure on what information do i put here.

Then the Constructor its self

public PlayingCard(int value, int suit)
{
   this.value = value;
   this.suit = suit;
}

How do i change the int value to its card representative.

Thanks

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