Is there value to seeing a working conways game example, to contextualize the problem?

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I showed 015 a working Conway's to help get them a sense of what the final product could look like.

I think several developers take some time to grok the idea of it representing population growth and patterns (we tend to skim over the history and context of Conway's Game) and that each "generation" is single frame of the game actively running.

Some potential examples:

http://nomatteus.github.io/conway-game-of-life-js/examples/
good examples of the game and certain patterns.

https://sklise.github.io/conways-game-of-life/
example of running game

http://jiffyclub.github.io/game-of-life-js/
basic example of the game in action.