Game of Life

Level 3 Computer Science project at Durham University, by Robbie Jakob-Whitworth.

This project is about investigating different techniques for visualising and simulating Conway's Game of Life.

For further details about objectives, deliverables, and the research question, see the Project Plan.

Quick Start

Implementation 1 (Vanilla JS)

See src/implementation-1/README.md.

Implementation 2 (React)

See src/implementation-2/README.md.

Implementation 3 (node.js)

See src/implementation-3/README.md.

Documents

Relevant documents are stored in both formats in this repository:

• An editable source
• A final, published PDF

Editable documents are stored in Documents/Source.

Final, published files are stored in Documents/Final.

Relevant documents are as follows:

File	Editable File	Published File
Project Plan	Project Plan.md	Project Plan.pdf
Literature Survey	Literature Survey (Google Docs)	Literature Survey.pdf
Final Report	Final Report (Google Docs)	Project Report.pdf

Converting a Document from GitHub-Flavoured Markdown to PDF

The following slightly convoluted steps produce a clean PDF from a GitHub-flavoured markdown file.

1. Open the markdown file in Atom, a free text editor.
2. Once in Atom, open a preview of the markdown file by pressing Ctrl+Shift+M.

   This is the same key combination on both Windows and macOS.

3. With the focus on the preview window, save the preview as an HTML file.

   ⌘+Shift+S

4. Open the saved HTML file in Google Chrome, and use its Save as PDF feature.

   Set the scale to 70% for optimum, consistent visual results.

Meeting Notes

For each meeting with the supervisor, copy the file Documents/Meeting Notes/TEMPLATE.md and save it as a new file, with the date of the meeting in ISO8601 format (e.g. 2019-12-25).

Meeting notes can be found in the Documents/Meeting Notes directory.

Deploy Previews

Check the issues tab on GitHub to find preview URLs for each relevant branch.

Adding a New Preview URL for a New Branch

If creating a new branch, e.g. feature/zeroth-implementation, add the following to the netlify.toml file on the master branch of this repo.

[context."feature/zeroth-implementation"]  # Contains the branch name
    base = "src/implementation-0/"         # The directory for that implementaiton
    publish = "public/"                    # The directory to publish, relative to the base directory
    command = "npm i && npm run build"     # Build command to run, in the base directory

Netlify will then automatically pick up the new branch upon push and will deploy it.

You should manually add a new issue to GitHub with the preview-url label and a link to the preview URL for that branch.