Something most programmers should do is to implement a version of ‘Conways Game Of Life’. It a fun little simulation consisting of a grid, where each position can be dead or alive. And with just a few rules a small universe is created.
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by underpopulation.
- Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
- Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.
- Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.