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+    "### **Exercise: Game of Life (no xarray, just python practice)**\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Implement [Conway's game of life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life) using numpy array to hold data.\n",
+    "Neighbours are defined as adjacent cells.\n",
+    "\n",
+    " - Any LIVING cell with 2 or 3 neighbours survives.\n",
+    " - Any DEAD cell with 3 neighbours comes alive.\n",
+    " - Any OTHER LIVING cell dies.\n",
+    " - All deaths and births occur simultaneously\n",
+    "\n",
+    "For plotting: Jupyter is very finicky with \"real-time\" plots and there is a high chance it will refuse to plot everything in one frame even if you try all the stackoverflow solutions, so I propose just using a script to run your program (type \"python FILE_NAME.py\" in console). Try the following code to produce \"animation\" to test that it works:\n",
+    "\n",
+    "```\n",
+    "import numpy as np\n",
+    "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n",
+    "\n",
+    "plt.axis([0, 10, 0, 1])\n",
+    "\n",
+    "for i in range(10):\n",
+    "    y = np.random.random()\n",
+    "    plt.scatter(i, y)\n",
+    "    plt.pause(0.5)\n",
+    "plt.show()\n",
+    "\n",
+    "```"
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