Expirimental implementation of "Conway's Game of Life", in JavaScript. You can view this in a JSFiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/nnordhaus/1v18fog6/4/ Why the game of life? It is a fairly simple concept to start with, but can lead to many types of expirimentation. Why JavaScript? JavaScript is probably the most universal and lowest barrier to entry language to do a project. It can be run in a browser without the need for a webserver.