Since we wish to show and discuss how to structure a non-trivial project, we need an example that is more than a "hello world" project. We will develop a relatively simple code that can compute and print elementary cellular automata:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton#Elementary_cellular_automata
- http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html
Our code will be able to compute any of the 256 elementary cellular automata, for instance rule 90 (Wolfram code):
$ ./bin/automata 40 15 90length: 40number of steps: 15rule: 90 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
The structure of our ...
