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Conway's Game of Life
Conway’s game of life was one of those computer things that I discovered early in my youth. That weird mathematical structure that created, destroyed, consumed and stabilized. The prototype fractal. On and off for years I would revisit it. I had recently seen a great youtube video which I shared with my kids. As we watched through the video, Conway’s Game came up and we got talking about it. They thought it was too much to code. So the next morning I got them up early and we started the project. After a few hours we had a working grid and a display system. After some hard learned lessons on shallow array copies we figured it out and had a working game in under 150 lines of code.
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