TexasHoldEm

This being the first official MLH Hackathon attended by us, Alvie and I decided to spend all of our time learning something new. We spent a great deal of time wondering what to make until I remembered about the deck of cards the recruiters from SIG had given me. Seeing as how they use a lot of C#, we took this as a great opportunity to learn C# as well as make something that SIG really loves: Poker. This is a Project developed by Alvie Hossain and Jeremy Gouveia.

Let's get started:

But First, the Algorithm

It took us around 7 of straight work and lots of googling to structure our program. Unfortunately, we saved the worst part for last. The thing is, in Poker there are approximately 2,598,960 possible unique poker hands. With this in mind, we ended up with three possibilities: either create an object-oriented solution that would run through all the possible options, or import a library that someone else had already developed, OR take a nice and healthy "hackathon Paul from Siemens, and Mike from Booz Allen Hamilton

Getting Started

These instructions will get you up and running with a local copy of our sweet poker game.

Prerequisites

As long as you have an IDE that can run .NET applications or C#, you will be able to access our executable. We used Visual Studio code with the C# extension powered by OmniSharp which was kindly provided by Microsoft Making first C# file: