Life was the first non trivial program I ever coded. It was in GW Basic and required you to input the cells by typing in their grid coordinates one at a time. a

Life was the first non trivial program I ever coded. It was in GW Basic and required you to input the cells by typing in their grid coordinates one at a time. and it rendered the steps in the simulations using asterisks on the screen. I learned about off by one errors and multidimensional arrays coding it. I still remember the rush of elation when I first rendered the blinker on screen and it worked.