Bennington Game of Life

Rough Steps to deploy on localhost/replicate:

• Have python installed
• clone repo into directory
• run pip install virtualenv
• Go up one folder and run virtualenv ENV (ENV is just the name of the virtual environment that will contain the project's dependencies)
• run ENV/Scripts/activate and cd to the repo again
  • On Linux/MacOS, the script might be stored in ENV/bin/activate instead. You also might have to give execute permission to the file before being able to run it: chmod +x ENV/bin/activate
• run pip install requirements.txt(Install all the dependencies in your virtual environment)
  • If an error pops up about not being able to find the package requirements.txt, try running pip install -r requirements.txt instead.
• run python manage.py runserver

Boom you should be live at local host or 127.0.0.1:8000.

How to edit javascript and css files

For our 'simulation' app, all the front end files we can edit are in the static folder. It should be mostly similar to what you're used to.

Project Goals

Buttons:

Start, pause, step, reset, patterns (documented, user’s)(search function inside), randomize (reset and make a random board)

Upgrade: (the third week)

win-lose function (all can be incorporated in different modes) Load a pattern and make it alive as long as possible and win a score, the machine will try to stop the user Multiple users playing and who keep a shape longer wins Load a pattern and try to make it die as soon as possible Changing the game while it is running Either static board or infinite board modes

Technologies:

Python backend Javascript for front end and interactivity Jangle framework Github

Tasks:

Creating the website on jangle (Julian) Creating the front end part (julian and emmanuel) Creating the back end (dina and quang)

After jullian creating the repositories the step are: 1- the basic grid (static for now, no scrolling) creating the empty grid (drawing, canvas, HTML) keep a set of points alive as the game state Given the game state, display it in the screen (bunch of yellow squares) When a user click on the appropriate the square, change the state of the square (add or remove the point to the set and then display the set) Add the start button, when the user click it, the game run 2- adding the other buttons: When the user click on pause, the loop get paused (need to search to know how to know that) Same with the step and reset buttons 3- go to the back end do the server parts: Upload the documented patterns and link that to the front end 4- start the upgrade parts

Our first group meeting on sunday