Lab 12: Instructor's Notes

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Lab 12: Instructor's Notes

As a fun way to explore two-dimensional vectors, this exercise builds a class that facilitates playing John Conway's cellular automata "game of Life." The game involves processing a grid of cells, which we represent as a two-dimensional vector of vector of integers.

To facilitate this exercise, we provide several files:

life.cpp, a driver program to play the game;
LifeGame.h, the header file for class LifeGame, which students will complete;
LifeGame.cpp, the implementation file for class LifeGame, which students will complete;
LifeGame.doc, the documentation file for class LifeGame, which students will complete; and
makefile12, to coordinate the translation.

The LifeGame class constructor initializes itself with a configuration stored in an input file. To facilitate exploring the game, we also provide several different configuration files, including test.life, stable.life, quick.life, cross1.life, cross2.life, glider.life, gliders.life, and blank.life.

As usual, if you wish to avoid network contention, save local copies of these files ahead of time and direct your students to access those local copies.

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