Blackjack Engine

This project models Blackjack as a state machine and, on top of it, uses Bayes' theorem to calculate the expected value of an action for a given Blackjack state.

Layout

• state_machine/ — the BlackjackEngine::StateMachine library: hands, rules, states, and the transitions between them.
• bayes/ — the BlackjackEngine::Bayes library: an expected-value calculator built on top of the state machine.

Build

The following commands build the libraries and the unit test binaries from the repository root:

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build

This produces the two libraries:

$ ls build/state_machine/libblackjack_state_machine.a build/bayes/libblackjack_bayes.a
build/bayes/libblackjack_bayes.a  build/state_machine/libblackjack_state_machine.a

Test

Run the whole test suite with CTest from the build directory:

ctest --test-dir build

The individual test binaries are build/state_machine/tests/state_machine_tests and build/bayes/tests/bayes_tests.