Game of Life in C

This project is meant as an educational piece of software. The development process is described step by step in slides.pdf.

Start by reading the slides and try to implement the next step on your own. If you're stuck, there's help. This project is structed in branches - master only features the start of the project, every next step n is described in a subsequent branch prefixed with n.

Room for improvement

• use strategy pattern to implement output
• for example this exact code could be used in google nacl (sample implementation)
• implement more intelligent calculation of next_tick using caching
• refactor code into more files with separation of concern

Linklist

• Description of GOL
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
• Sample Implementation using NaCl
• http://dispatched.ch/gol_nacl/gol.html
• Game of Life in Game of Life
• http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/05/turtles-all-the-way-down-or-gliders-or-glider-turtles/