.net - Card Shuffling in C#

Question

I am trying to write a code for a project that lists the contents of a deck of cards, asks how much times the person wants to shuffle the deck, and then shuffles them. It has to use a method to create two random integers using the System.Random class.

These are my classes:

Program.cs:

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Deck mydeck = new Deck();
            foreach (Card c in mydeck.Cards)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(c);
            }
            Console.WriteLine("How Many Times Do You Want To Shuffle?");

        }
    }
}

Deck.cs:

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Deck
    {    
        Card[] cards = new Card[52];
        string[] numbers = new string[] { "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "J", "Q", "K" };
        public Deck()
        {
            int i = 0;
            foreach(string s in numbers)
            {
                cards[i] = new Card(Suits.Clubs, s);
                i++;

            }
            foreach (string s in numbers)
            {
                cards[i] = new Card(Suits.Spades, s);
                i++;

            }
            foreach (string s in numbers)
            {
                cards[i] = new Card(Suits.Hearts, s);
                i++;

            }
            foreach (string s in numbers)
            {
                cards[i] = new Card(Suits.Diamonds, s);
                i++;

            }
        }

        public Card[] Cards
        {
            get
            {
                return cards;


            }
        }
    }  
}

Enums.cs:

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{        
    enum Suits 
    {
        Hearts,
        Diamonds,
        Spades,
        Clubs
    }
}

Card.cs:

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Card
    {
        protected Suits suit;
        protected string cardvalue;
        public Card()
        {
        }
        public Card(Suits suit2, string cardvalue2)
        {
            suit = suit2;
            cardvalue = cardvalue2;
        }
        public override string ToString()
        {
            return string.Format("{0} of {1}", cardvalue, suit);
        }
    }
 }

Please tell me how to make the cards shuffle as much as the person wants and then list the shuffled cards.

Answer 1

Use Fisher-Yates shuffle.

Your C# code should look something like this:

static public class FisherYates
{
    static Random r = new Random();
    //  Based on Java code from wikipedia:
    //  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher-Yates_shuffle
    static public void Shuffle(int[] deck)
    {
        for (int n = deck.Length - 1; n > 0; --n)
        {
            int k = r.Next(n+1);
            int temp = deck[n];
            deck[n] = deck[k];
            deck[k] = temp;
        }
    }
}