Games-Tournament-BlackJack version 0.01 ========================================== This is the README file for the Games::Tournament::BlackJack. The interfaces are likely to change, this is largely untested code. The main purpose for this module is to allow users to develop new subclasses of Games::Tournament::BlackJack::Player for use in Games::Tournament::BlackJack tournaments. The Thousand-Oaks PerlMongers group will be organizing the 'official' 2005 tournament that this codebase was originally written to support. The author felt it would be most appropriate to open the code running the tournament to reap the usual litany of benefits. All entries to this and future 'official' tournaments must be submitted under a license approved under the Open Source Definition. ( http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php ) You can use this set of modules to: =over 4 =item * Develop and objectively evaluate BlackJack strategies. =item * Simulate a human player of varying memory facility (not yet implemented in 0.01) =item * Win the BlackJack programming competition. =item * Help find and eliminate any bugs in the competition engine prior to the actual competition. =back There is further documentation in the modules themselves, and the discuss folder of the distribution. Start with C. This is an early version, much more documentation is planned, especially on the user-developer side for tournament entrants. Feedback, patches, etc.. are welcome (though I make no guarantees on acceptance for patches.. or agreement for feedback.) INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install INSTRUCTIONS See POD for Games::Tournament::BlackJack. DEPENDENCIES This module does not depend on any other module except Exporter.pm. If you don't have Exporter.pm installed, you have bigger problems to deal with than running a BlackJack simulation. If you don't know if you have it installed, but you can get perl to run, you almost definitely have it installed. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2005 by Paul Jacobs This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.