Using the game of life to introduce freshman students to the power and elegance of design patterns

Authors:
Michael R. Wick
Affiliations:
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI
Venue:
OOPSLA '04 Companion to the 19th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Year:
2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe two programming assignments based on a refactoring of the classic Game of Life application. In particular, we use the Game of Life to help teach freshman students two important and widely applicable design patterns - Command and Visitor.