On Feb 27, 6:08 pm, ar2...@gmail.com wrote:

Would you like to see my rate card?  My prices for bespoke software
are very reasonable.  Also, I'll need your prof's email address so I
can submit it directly to him or her.

See http://home.earthlink.net/~patricia_shanahan/beginner.html for
general advice on getting started.

Patricia

The Ace of Spades, right?

Seriously, you just kind of laid it out for yourself pretty clearly. In
addition to what Patricia said, consider all the questions not even asked in
that description, and how you might answer them - how would a user know the
deck has been shuffled? What is the way each cycle will be shown, if at all?
Which control structure (loop, branch, switch, sequence) that we learned in
class seems to be most relevant?

To model the problem consider the things and the actions, that is, the nouns
and the verbs in the description of what happens. What is a card? A deck? An
Ace of Spades? What does it mean to shuffle a deck? What does the shuffling?
What makes a card bottom or top? And so on.

Good luck.

- Lew