Tutorials

Welcome to the Tutorials page! If you want to learn about Life, cellular automata, patterns, software and scripting, you've come to the right place. These tutorials are designed for beginners; we will start from something as simple as viewing a pattern.

Before we start

Before starting these tutorials, you may want to read around on the wiki. These tutorials may at times expect you to know basic rules and patterns. Here are some articles you may want to check out before starting:

• Life
• Cellular automata
• Pattern
• Soup
• Still life
• Spaceship
• Oscillator

Tutorials

Here are the tutorials currently available (or waiting to be written):

• Rules — start here if you're not yet familiar with cellular automata and want to get a bit of background before delving into patterns and software.
• Golly
• More Golly
  • Creating custom rules
  • Scripts
  • Overlays
• Software
  • WLS
  • Compiling C Code
  • Gfind
  • Contributing to Catagolue
• Other Search Methods
  • Glider Syntheses
• Your First Python Script