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I am currently writting a programe about Conway's Game of life and I am really a beginner of python, I don't know how to start at all. Anybody can help me with it?

Coral Doe
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  • Would it not have been better to edit the offer out of the question rather than just close it. Essentially, it's a question about how to implement Life in Python. – Andrew Rollings Dec 08 '08 at 17:26
  • Well I can't speak for everyone, but for myself I am always loath to edit anyone else's actual content. Typos, sure. Actual content not so much. – EBGreen Dec 08 '08 at 17:28
  • No, This isn't the kind of place where people should be offering to pay to have their homework done for them. You learn by doing, not by paying someone to do your homework. – Kibbee Dec 08 '08 at 17:28
  • I guess, but there's so much missing from it - can they write software in other languages? Are they stuck on syntax? GUI? algorithms for running cellular automata? – Paul Dixon Dec 08 '08 at 17:29
  • In this case (if I could edit) I probably would have erred on the side of removing the offer rather than closing it out completely. IMO, it is an interesting question, just clumsily phrased :) – Andrew Rollings Dec 08 '08 at 17:29
  • @kibbee... Well, I added the homework tag :) Seemed like an easy way to earn 50 quid though ;) – Andrew Rollings Dec 08 '08 at 17:30
  • People can vote against closure with +1 for the question, normally if someone spots a closed question with +ve rep they'll reopen. – Paul Dixon Dec 08 '08 at 18:10
  • I reopened at 0. I think it's a fine question, already answered, etc... move on, nothing to see here. – TheSoftwareJedi Dec 08 '08 at 19:03

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http://plife.sourceforge.net/

Send the 50 quid to me :)

(I'm kidding, of course)

Andrew Rollings
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You probably don't need to pay to learn python. Implementing cellular automata makes for good starting project. The best place to start with python is the official tutorial and you can follow that with dive into python.

The answers here and here may be helpful as well.

If you can bear the self-praising and claims to godness Wolfram's book is a good way to get a feel for cellular automata, but don't take the book itself too seriously (that's a separate issue that can fill several blog posts). He also has a set of papers on this stuff that is published as a book that goes into all the details. And of course if you just google for cellular automata and Conway's game you'll find a myriad of implementations and explanations.

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rz.
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You'll probably get some good documentation here : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085959/.

Guillaume
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I happened to post a blog on implementing John Conway's Game of Life in XAML/WPF using embedded Python. It might be of interest to you.

Daniel Paull
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try here instead.

http://www.elance.com/p/landing/buyer.html

http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/DotNet/default.aspx

These are places where you can hire people to do small freelance work for you.

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There's a few people on the pygame.org website who've done their versions of the game of life. Maybe they'll be of help: Pygame.org - search "life"

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