Exercise - Apply conditional logic

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In this exercise, you'll use if and else to create the code for a card game for the recreational games company you work for. Your job is to write specific functionality that your colleagues can use in the Blackjack game they're creating.

Display playing cards users expect to see

Blackjack players typically are dealt face cards called Jack, Queen, King, and Ace. All other cards are numbers. You'll write logic that makes the user experience in a new Blackjack game your team is developing similar to a Blackjack game played in person.

  1. Scaffold an F# project by running dotnet new:

    dotnet new console --language F# -o Cards
cd Cards

  2. Open the Program.fs file. Replace the contents with the following code. Remember, indentation is important in F#.

    let cardNo = 12

let cardDescription = 
   if cardNo = 1 || cardNo = 14 then "Ace"
   elif cardNo = 11 then "Jack"
   elif cardNo = 12 then "Queen"
   elif cardNo = 13 then "King"
   else string cardNo
printfn "%s" cardDescription

  3. Run the project with dotnet run:

    dotnet run

    Your output shows:

    Queen

Congratulations, you've created a piece of code that, given a card number, produces a description.