Casino games have an almost ideal level of complexity. If they were too simple, the house edge would be too obvious and people would not play them. If they were too complex, people would not enjoy them as simple recreation. Years (centuries?) of experience in the gaming industry has fine-tuned the table games to fit nicely with the limits of our human intellect.

Simulation of discrete phenomena lies at the origin of OO programming. We have found it easier to motivate, explain and justify OO design when solving simulation problems. The student can then leverage this insight into other applications of OO programming for more common transactional applications.

The results are sophisticated but easy to interpret. Probability theory has been applied by others to develop precise expectations for each game. These simulations should produce results consistent with the known probabilities. This book will skim over the probability theory in order to focus on the programming. For a few exercises, the theoretical results will be provided to serve as checks on the correctness of the student's work.