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A cellular automaton devised by John Horton Conway in 1970, based on simple rules of birth, death and reproduction. It is a zero-player game that can simulate a universal constructor or any other Turing machine, and shows emergent patterns and self-organization.
APL is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson, using a large range of special graphic symbols to represent functions and operators. It has influenced many other languages and applications, such as spreadsheets, functional programming, and computer math packages.
Java is a popular, general-purpose, object-oriented language that can run on any platform with a Java virtual machine. Learn about its history, features, applications, and influences from this comprehensive Wikipedia article.
LifeWiki is a comprehensive online resource for learning and exploring the patterns and phenomena of Conway's Game of Life, a cellular automaton invented by mathematician John Horton Conway. It hosts over 2000 articles, a large collection of Life patterns, and interoperates with other Life software such as Golly.
A list of video games that use Java as a platform or a programming language. The list includes 83 games from various genres, such as action, puzzle, strategy, sports, and RPG.
James Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist who created the Java programming language in 1994. He worked at Sun Microsystems, Google, Liquid Robotics, and Amazon Web Services, and received many awards and honors for his contributions to computer science.
Following their promise to release a Java Development Kit (JDK) based almost completely on free and open-source code in the first half of 2007, [11] Sun released the complete source code of the Java Class Library under the GPL on May 8, 2007, except for some limited parts that had been licensed to Sun by third parties and Sun was unable to re-license under the GPL. [12]
CodeMonkey is a software that teaches computer programming concepts and languages to students ages 6–14 through games and challenges. It supports Python, CoffeeScript, Blockly and other languages, and is available in 23 languages and used by schools worldwide.