Implementation of Conway's game of life.
Running from command line:
python life.py -size <size> -seed <seed>
sizedetermines the size of the board (as of now the app supports just square boards)seeddetermines the seed used when generating randoms.
Developed on Python 3 in an Ubuntu 12.04 instance running on Windows 10.
I used the seed parameter to manually test the behaviour of the board. In retrospect, I should've used unit tests for this.
One main bug that I recall when developing this was that the program was saving the changes to the cells when stepping forward. When it reaches a cell that needed to access previous data, it instead took the new data, causing it to deviate from what was supposed to happen. I did a workaround for it by defining a new board for every step, but I wonder if there is a more space-efficient method of solving this problem.
As opposed to my Monopoly project. I was actually able to write a test for this app. Granted, it only tests the blinker case but at least I managed to take a step forward. I hope I'll be able to improve the tests for this app in the future.