GAME OF LIFE

Table of Contents

• General Info
• Code specification
• Dependencies
• Build
• Usage

General Info

The code contains a c implementation of the game of life by conway.

Code specification

The code consists of the following parts

• conway_functions: where all the functions for the initialization/display/update of each cell in the the game of life. It is worth mentioning that each the cellmap only stores the live cell to improve code speed.
• visualization_tools- This part contains necessary functions to allows display information to the user using the ncurses library.
• common_variable_type- It contains variable type commonly shared between all the other parts of the code.
• global_variables/main this included the definition and declarations of all the necessary variables to execute the game. It also include a state machine to better handle the flow of the game.

Dependencies

This game requires was implemented and tested on a linux system/ unexpected behavior might occur if executed in a other system. The ncurses library is used for the display, if you do not have it install, use the following command to install

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncurses5

Build

To build the game go to the folder that where the Makefile is and execute the following command

make clean
make - to compile the code
./main - to execute the game

Usage

After executing the game, it should take you directly to the main menu-

IMPORTANT

• Use touch pad to interact with the menu, mouse click might not work well(external mouse does work but might require double click)
• Remember to play p to start the simulation in both manual or automatic mode
• Instructions in included in the Helpbox
• Have fun !!!:)))))))

This initial structure are available

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