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Make sure to scan a QR code from the front and then sign in. You must sign in before proceeding (so resolve any WiFi-related issues now before moving on). For lab today we're going to implement Conway's Game of Life, often just called "The Game of Life." This isn't really a "game" in the Fortnite sense of the word, or even in the board game1 sense of the word, but rather a type of computer simulation that has really interesting implications and results, to the point where it is still actively studied even 53 years after its creation. The "game" consists of a two-dimensional field of cells that can either be occupied ("live") or not occupied ("dead"). The field of cells evolve over time with the new state of each individual cells being based only on their previous state and the previous states of their eight neighbor cells. In the Game of Life (GOL), the rules are as follows: When taken all together these rules can be reduced to the following three: The state of the game board on time s
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