Object Oriented Card Game | Dataford Interview Questions

Implement a card game using object-oriented design (implement the game rules as classes). Asked in the Technical call / onsite OOP stage. Implement a two-player high-card game: each round deals one card to each player, the higher rank wins one point, and equal ranks produce a tie with no points.

Contract

Implement play_card_game(cards, rounds). cards is a list of objects with integer rank values from 2 through 14 and a suit string. Deal cards in order. Return {"scores": [player0_score, player1_score], "winners": [0, 1, or -1 per round]}.

Constraints

1 <= rounds <= 500
cards contains exactly 2 * rounds cards
2 <= cards[i].rank <= 14
cards[i].suit is a non-empty string
Suits do not affect the winner

Function Signature

def play_card_game(cards, rounds):

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Problem

Contract

Constraints

1 <= rounds <= 500
cards contains exactly 2 * rounds cards
2 <= cards[i].rank <= 14
cards[i].suit is a non-empty string
Suits do not affect the winner

Function Signature

def play_card_game(cards, rounds):

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Run and submit as often as you like. When you're ready, talk me through your approach or go straight to the code.