Final Project: Game of Life

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Create a version of John H$.$ Conway's Game of Life simulator as a console$-$based Python script.

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The Game of Life was invented by John $H.$ Conway to model genetic laws for birth, death, and survival. Consider a checkerboard consisting of an $N-$by$-$N array of squares. Each square can contain one individual $($denoted by a $1)$ or be empty $($denoted by $-).$ Figure $1($a$)$ shows a $6-$by$-6$ board with four of the squares occupied. The future of each individual depends on the number of his neighbors. After a period of time called a generation, certain individuals will survive, others will die due to either loneliness or overcrowding, and new individuals will be born. Each non$-$border square has eight neighboring squares. After each generation, the status of the squares changes as follows:

An individual survives if there are two or three individuals in neighboring squares.

An individual dies if he has more than three individuals or less than two in neighboring squares.

A new individual is born into each empty square with exactly three individuals as neighbors.