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April 24, 2008 John Conway's Game of Life in D v1.0 | ||||
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Attachments: | Hey D People... Here is my first significant effort in D: John Conway's Game of Life. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life) It's not a graphics library or a first person shooter, but you may enjoy it. Hopefully someone might be able to use this as a good example of a simple D program. I've cleaned it up a little, but haven't spit-shined it if you know what I mean. Here are the features: - compiled with the latest 'gdc' available in Ubuntu 7.10. - It uses ncurses for output for that "old school effect". If you want to build and run it you'll need a copy of the 'bcd' C to D header converter. Make sure you install his pre-converted headers for curses. (By the way, could someone update the website and make sure they reference 'bcd' as the new header converter. I wasted a lot of time with the other one.) - It loads its initial population from a file. Format is <row>,<col> for each populated cell. One data item per line. - Upon startup, the initial population is displayed and you can edit it with 'vi' like keys. Check the code for the useful keys. (spacebar to flip a cell on/off. vi movement keys to move.) - Hit ENTER to start the sim. To pause and edit the current population hit ENTER again. - To single step the sim just press the space bar. Any other key will advance to the next gen. Spacebar again leaves step mode. - ESC will exit the sim from run state or edit state. - It auto adapts its data structures at startup to fit your console size. - It's only about 9k of source code. Okay, that's it. If you are amused or pissed off just send me an email 8-) I'm sure you'll identify some code that I could have done using more appropriate D idioms (like the nested for loops could be foreach). If you can think of improvements, please feel free to send them in and if they make sense I send an update. I know it's a toy and doesn't include any generic programming or templating examples, but hey its a start and kind of fun. Next I want to do an AI neuroevolver so I thought this would be appropriate ;-) Regards, Jim Burnes |
April 25, 2008 Re: John Conway's Game of Life in D v1.0 | ||||
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Posted in reply to Jim Burnes | Any chance of aTango version? |
April 25, 2008 Re: John Conway's Game of Life in D v1.0 | ||||
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Posted in reply to Jim Burnes | Jim Burnes wrote:
> Hey D People...
>
> Here is my first significant effort in D: John Conway's Game of Life.
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life)
>
> It's not a graphics library or a first person shooter, but you may enjoy it. Hopefully someone might be able to use this as a good example of a simple D program. I've cleaned it up a little, but haven't spit-shined it if you know what I mean.
>
> Here are the features:
>
> - compiled with the latest 'gdc' available in Ubuntu 7.10.
> - It uses ncurses for output for that "old school effect". If you want to build and run it you'll need a copy of the 'bcd' C to D header converter. Make sure you install his pre-converted headers for curses. (By the way, could someone update the website and make sure they reference 'bcd' as the new header converter. I wasted a lot of time with the other one.)
> - It loads its initial population from a file. Format is <row>,<col> for each
> populated cell. One data item per line.
> - Upon startup, the initial population is displayed and you can edit it with 'vi' like keys. Check the code for the useful keys. (spacebar to flip a cell on/off. vi movement keys to move.)
> - Hit ENTER to start the sim. To pause and edit the current population hit ENTER again.
> - To single step the sim just press the space bar. Any other key will advance to the next gen. Spacebar again leaves step mode.
> - ESC will exit the sim from run state or edit state.
> - It auto adapts its data structures at startup to fit your console size.
> - It's only about 9k of source code.
>
> Okay, that's it. If you are amused or pissed off just send me an email 8-)
>
> I'm sure you'll identify some code that I could have done using more appropriate D idioms (like the nested for loops could be foreach).
>
> If you can think of improvements, please feel free to send them in and if they make sense I send an update.
>
> I know it's a toy and doesn't include any generic programming or templating examples, but hey its a start and kind of fun.
>
> Next I want to do an AI neuroevolver so I thought this would be appropriate ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Burnes
Nice work!
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April 25, 2008 Re: John Conway's Game of Life in D v1.0 | ||||
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Posted in reply to Tower Ty | Tower Ty Wrote:
> Any chance of aTango version?
Ty,
I'm not sure what Tango functions I could leverage. Right now it just uses a simple class or two that I cooked up. All I/O functions are handled by nCurses.
I'm considering an expanded version of it in GTKd.
Jim
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