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I feel the need to voice some moderation in response to this response. ANKOS is sometimes painful to read for Wolfram's incessant self-aggrandising, and it is

I feel the need to voice some moderation in response to this response. ANKOS is sometimes painful to read for Wolfram's incessant self-aggrandising, and it is also frustratingly unstructured in parts. Nonetheless, many of the digressions are thought provoking in ways that you won't really find in any other book. Further, it is mostly non-technical and informal, so it can serve well as a very broad introduction to some of the curious corners of cellular automata research.

wool_gather 10y ago
>it can serve well as a very broad introduction to some of the curious corners of cellular automata research. This is true. It's a substantial book, well worth reading despite its flaws. The thrust of my post was that it should not be the _first_ thing you read in order to begin learning about CA.
- dnautics 10y ago
  Forget reading, the first thing you should do is write your own version of "the game of life", which I did as part of my CS class in 8th grade. Just be careful, youtube might suggest you do it in APL, don't do it in APL.