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 <updated>2014-02-10T23:04:05-05:00</updated>
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   <name>Mark Greene</name>
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   <title>Start of week two</title>
   <link href="http://mark-greene.github.io/2014/02/10/start-of-week-two/"/>
   <updated>2014-02-10T22:30:00Z</updated>
   <id>http://mark-greene.github.io/2014/02/10/start-of-week-two</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;This week I&#39;m working on my object oriented Blackjack game.
My procedural version was a good starting point, I just needed to encapsulate the behavior into classes.
I started with a Card class and a Deck class.  I decided to go with a Hand class instead of seperate Player and Dealer classes.
My main game code went into a Blackjack class.  I creaded test for each class to make sure the behavior is correct while I refactored the code.
I think the encapsulation works OK and my methods are farily small but there&#39;s always room for improvement.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem I had/have is trying to use command line arguments with rspec.  Seems like
OptionParser does not work well with rspec.  I like the nested format option with rspec and had to add that to my code
to keep rspec happy.  I&#39;m hoping there is a better solution.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Let me know what you think.  The code is in my Introduction to Ruby and Web Development Project under week-2 and
can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/mark-greene/intro-ruby-web/tree/master/week-2&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <entry>
   <title>Start of week one</title>
   <link href="http://mark-greene.github.io/2014/02/03/start-of-week-one/"/>
   <updated>2014-02-03T13:30:00Z</updated>
   <id>http://mark-greene.github.io/2014/02/03/start-of-week-one</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;OK, things are a little better with the blog.
I think I have all links working and &lt;a href=&quot;http://jekyllrb.com&quot;&gt;jekyll&lt;/a&gt; is a little more under control.
It was still way too much work :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Now lets get to those week one challenges...&lt;/p&gt;
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 <entry>
   <title>Welcome to my blog</title>
   <link href="http://mark-greene.github.io/2014/02/01/welcome-to-my-blog/"/>
   <updated>2014-02-01T09:30:00Z</updated>
   <id>http://mark-greene.github.io/2014/02/01/welcome-to-my-blog</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;This is the first post to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gotealeaf.com&quot; title=&quot;Introduction to Ruby and Web Development&quot;&gt;Tealeaf Training&lt;/a&gt; blog.  I&#39;m trying to use GitHub User Pages
and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://jekyllrb.com&quot;&gt;Jekyll template&lt;/a&gt; for my blog.  So far it&#39;s been way too much work. I think I should have
just used WordPress or Tumblr.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I thought markdown was all I would need to know but its lots of HTML/CSS and Javascript.
I&#39;m just not a Web developer... yet.
Please excuse the broken links while I figure out what I&#39;m doing.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h5&gt;Playing around with Markdown&lt;/h5&gt;

&lt;div class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code class=&quot;ruby&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;k&quot;&gt;def&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;nf&quot;&gt;print_cards&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;cards&lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;span class=&quot;nb&quot;&gt;puts&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;s2&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;si&quot;&gt;#{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;cards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;o&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;count&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;si&quot;&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s2&quot;&gt;-card deck&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;cards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;o&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;each&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;k&quot;&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;o&quot;&gt;|&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;rank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;p&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;suit&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;o&quot;&gt;|&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;span class=&quot;nb&quot;&gt;puts&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;s2&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;si&quot;&gt;#{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;rank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;si&quot;&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s2&quot;&gt; of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;si&quot;&gt;#{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;n&quot;&gt;suit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;si&quot;&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s2&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;span class=&quot;k&quot;&gt;end&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;k&quot;&gt;end&lt;/span&gt;
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