Data Manipulation with pop, push, and shift.

[aplata]

My instructor has asked me to use the pop, shift, and push functions to write a script that sufficiently "shuffles" a simulated deck of cards before printing the top five cards.

I came up with the following code but the problem I am having is that I can't seem to shuffle by just using pop, push, and shift. I think the problem for me is trying to understand what constitutes a shuffle because there are many different ways to shuffle a deck of cards. I also am aware there is a shuffle function but we are not allowed to use this for the exercise. So if I had a better understanding of how the algorithm worked I might get a little further than where I am at.

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
@startingdeck = ("A H","2 H","3 H","4 H","5 H","6 H","7 H","8 H",
"9 H","10 H","J H","Q H","K H",
"A D","2 D","3 D","4 D","5 D","6 D","7 D","8 D",
"9 D","10 D","J D","Q D","K D",
"A C","2 C","3 C","4 C","5 C","6 C","7 C","8 C",
"9 C","10 C","J C","Q C","K C",
"A S","2 S","3 S","4 S","5 S","6 S","7 S","8 S",
"9 S","10 S","J S","Q S","K S");
push(@startingdeck, shift(@startingdeck));
push(@startingdeck, pop(@startingdeck));
foreach my $card (@startingdeck) { print "Card: $card\n"}

[KevinADC]

My instructor has asked me to use the pop, shift, and push functions to write a script that sufficiently "shuffles" a simulated deck of cards before printing the top five cards.

I came up with the following code but the problem I am having is that I can't seem to shuffle by just using pop, push, and shift. I think the problem for me is trying to understand what constitutes a shuffle because there are many different ways to shuffle a deck of cards. I also am aware there is a shuffle function but we are not allowed to use this for the exercise. So if I had a better understanding of how the algorithm worked I might get a little further than where I am at.

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
@startingdeck = ("A H","2 H","3 H","4 H","5 H","6 H","7 H","8 H",
"9 H","10 H","J H","Q H","K H",
"A D","2 D","3 D","4 D","5 D","6 D","7 D","8 D",
"9 D","10 D","J D","Q D","K D",
"A C","2 C","3 C","4 C","5 C","6 C","7 C","8 C",
"9 C","10 C","J C","Q C","K C",
"A S","2 S","3 S","4 S","5 S","6 S","7 S","8 S",
"9 S","10 S","J S","Q S","K S");
push(@startingdeck, shift(@startingdeck));
push(@startingdeck, pop(@startingdeck));
foreach my $card (@startingdeck) { print "Card: $card\n"}

Use a loop so you push/pop/shift more than once. I will not post any code for you though since you are a student and this is your class assignment.