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In this video we'll see how we can check the suits of our cards, and then we'll finish up the 'addCards' function!
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Getting back to our suitCheck function.
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Let's use our new properties to
help us determine if the two cards
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are different colors,
which can only happen in two ways.
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Either card one is red, and card two
is black, or card one is black, and
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card two is red.
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So let's type if and
then add our brackets.
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Then inside the if statement,
let's add parentheses for
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our first case then add an or and
add parentheses for our second case.
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Then let's jump back to our first case.
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And check if c1 is red
by seeing if its suit is
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contained by our redSuits property.
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So redSuits.contains c1.suit.
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Then let's add an and and
check if c2 is black.
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blackSuits.contains c2.suit.
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Now we just need to handle the second
case where card one is black and
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card two is red, and I'll put this
on a new line so it's easier to see.
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So inside our second case parentheses,
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let's type blackSuits.contains c1.suit and
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redSuits.contains c2.suit.
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And there we go.
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Our suitCheck function
is basically finished.
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We just need to add return true
inside our if statement, and
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then add return false at
the bottom of the function.
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Jumping back to our addCards function,
if this if statement is true,
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then we want to add the new cards to
our current cards and return true.
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So, inside this if statement,
let's update our tableau
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pile by typing cards.addAll and
passing in our new cards list.
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Then let's return true to let our
model know that it was a success.
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Finally, let's return false
at the end of this function.
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And we should be done, right?
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Not quite.
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We still need to handle the case
where our tableauPile is empty.
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Remember, an empty tableauPile will
only accept a king as the first card.
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Also, as we have it now,
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an empty tableauPile will give us
an error when we try to use cards.last.
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There's no last card in an empty pile.
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To fix this, let's only evaluate our
if statement if our Cards property
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actually has cards in it.
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At the top of the function,
let's type if cards is
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greater than 0, add the left bracket and
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then let's add the right bracket,
down here.
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Next let's add an else if to
handle if a king is being played.
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Else if (newCards.first().value
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== 12, which is the value of a king.
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And finally, inside the else if,
let's just copy and
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paste these two lines from up here.
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And there we go.
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Now when we run this function,
if there are cards in the tableau pile and
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the first new card meets these criteria,
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then we'll add the new cards and
return true.
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On the other hand,
if this tableau pile is empty but
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the first a new card is a king, then we'll
also add the new cards and return true.
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Otherwise, whatever cards we're
trying to add aren't a match.
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So we'll just return false.
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We're finally done with
the addCards function and
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all that remains is figuring out how
to remove cards from our tableau pile.
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In the next video,
we'll see how we can do that, and
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along the way, we'll learn all about for
loops in Kotlin.
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