Tag: Cellular Automata
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A great Christmas present?
I haven’t quite finished it yet – but I do want to strongly recommend Ananyo Bhattacharya’s “The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann” – not just because the author was very gracious when I, as some random on the Internet, tweeted him to tell him of a (very small) error…
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Game of Life in Scratch
A few days ago I asked for volunteers to read a book I was writing on programming, using Scratch, MIT’s visual, event-driven, programming environment. I have not yet had any volunteers, though the flurry of online interest did get me to complete the first draft – so alpha testers still needed. In the meantime, I…
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Improved “Life” for Scratch
I have done some work on my Scratch-based version of Conway’s Game of Life…
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More than a game: the Game of Life
Conway’s Game of Life has long fascinated me. Thirty years ago I wrote some Z80 machine code to run it on a Sinclair ZX80 and when I wrote BINSIC, my reimplentation of Sinclair ZX81 BASIC, Life was the obvious choice for a demonstration piece of BASIC (and I had to rewrite it from scratch when…
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The game of life
The one piece of programming I have ever done that I am most proud of is a lump of Z80 machine code I wrote in 1981 to run “Conway’s Game of Life” for the ZX80 in the school Easter holidays. Users could set the start up pattern and then let it run – though it…
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