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@rice.edu> wrote:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/john-conway-inventor-of-the-game-of-...

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