Games of Life / Blog: Recent posts

I told you that I'll write about the technical details of "Games of Life", which is my first experiment with JavaScript and HTML5. So here it is.

Having worked with C and Java before, it was really easy to get used to the structure of JavaScript. The syntax is even easier: You don't have to end a line with a semicolon if there is one single statement in it, there is no need for declaring he variables explicitly before using them (which makes constructing 'for' loops much easier) and so on.... read more

I have been struggling with this project, "Games of Life", particularly with the web application for more than a month and I am really impressed what it turned out to be. I'll soon get to technical details, but in this post I want write about what my notion is and how the project evolved.

It all started when some friends of mine told me about Conway's game of life and that they had written a program of it. I had heard of Stephen Wolfram's cellular automata like rule 30 before, but this one seemed to be simpler and easily implementable. I didn't have much to do anyway, so on the way from Hamburg to Osnabrück I wrote some simple C code which was able to print the states of the "universe" one after the other in a terminal. (You can find a newer version of the code in my trunk.)... read more