[SIGCIS-Members] RIP John Conway

[Luke Fernandez]

RIP John Conway!

Does anybody (anecdotally or otherwise) know whether programming
instructors are using Conway's Game of Life more or less than in the past?
I learned to program Pascal on a mainframe in 1982 in an introductory C.S.
course.  I recall coding Conway's Game of Life as central to that
experience.  Almost 40 years later I still find great satisfaction in using
it to teach Javascript to undergraduates.  But I don't get the impression
that it's used all that often by others.  And that it may have been more
popular in the past.  What are other people's experiences/impressions?

Best,

Luke
lfernandez.org

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:16 AM Elizabeth Petrick <
elizabeth.petrick at rice.edu> wrote:

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> https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/john-conway-inventor-of-the-game-of-life-has-died-of-covid-19/
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