Dr. Dobbs and Microsoft - Game Challenge

Dr. Dobbs and Microsoft have teamed up for Visual Studio 2008 to create a special game competition. See the following link for details.



http://dobbschallenge.com/

Submitting solution

To submit a solution send zipped (winzip is perfered) solution to puzzledotnet@gmail.com. If you don't want to create your own deck of cards you can also send an email to puzzledotnet@gmail.com and I will reply to you with the text file.

THE PUZZLE STATEMENT

You will write a program that will shuffle a deck of cards. Every program will compete against every other problem using the following criteria.

• Correctness of algorithm. (Did program work correctly).


• Least lines of code needed to program solution.


• Smallest Exe size in bytes.

If it sounds interesting, please submit a solution and submit as often as you want. Please join us in the forums for more details, current standings, how to submit your entry, and much discussion among the jolly band of .Net participants!

Solution must be in 2005 or 2008 Visual Studio using VB, C# or C++. Submit an entire solution and tell me which Visual Studio you used.

Input

The input consists of a text file; deck.txt. One line for each card. Deck of cards is not shuffled. See attached file.

2C 2 Clubs

3C

…

JC Jack of Clubs

AC Ace of Clubs

2D 2 Diamonds

;;;

AD Ace of Diamonds

etc

Output

The output consists of a text file. File should be your application name. I.e. myApplication.txt. One line for each card.

Program Name: mySort
Worked: Yes
Lines of Code: 75
Size of exe: 4096