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@@ -879,13 +879,13 @@ <h2><span class="section-number">3.6. </span>Exercises<a class="headerlink" href
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-<p class="card-text"><a class="sphinx-bs btn text-wrap stretched-link reference external" href="https://bb.imperial.ac.uk/webapps/blackboard/content/launchAssessment.jsp?course_id=_23985_1&amp;content_id=_2049499_1&amp;mode=view"><span>This week’s quiz</span></a></p>
+<p class="card-text"><a class="sphinx-bs btn text-wrap stretched-link reference external" href="https://bb.imperial.ac.uk/webapps/assessment/take/launchAssessment.jsp?course_id=_25965_1&amp;content_id=_2054444_1"><span>This week’s quiz</span></a></p>
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-<p>Obtain the <a class="reference internal" href="not_released.html"><span class="doc">skeleton code for these exercises from GitHub classroom</span></a>.
+<p>Obtain the <a class="reference external" href="https://classroom.github.com/a/mElLR0AD">skeleton code for these exercises from GitHub Classroom</a>.
 The skeleton code contains a <code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">polynomial</span></code> package with a version of
 the <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Polynomial</span></code> class.</p>
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4_style.html

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 contributing code to an existing project then you should follow their style.</p>
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+<div class="section" id="a-brief-diversion-into-cellular-automata">
+<h2><span class="section-number">4.8. </span>A brief diversion into cellular automata<a class="headerlink" href="#a-brief-diversion-into-cellular-automata" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
+<p>We’ll now take a brief diversion into a completely different area of
+mathematics: cellular automata. This is entirely irrelevant to the contents of
+this course, except that it provides a useful and, hopefully, interesting basis
+for this week’s exercises. <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life">The game of life</a> is a mathematical
+system invented by the mathematician <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway">John Horton Conway FRS</a> in 1970. The board of the
+game is a grid of squares, like an infinite piece of graph paper (though we’ll
+only work with finite boards, since our computers have finite memory). Each cell
+on the board is either alive (value 1) or dead (value 0). The only human
+interaction is to set the initial state of every square on the board to either
+alive or dead. The game then proceeds as a series of</p>
+</div>
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-<h2><span class="section-number">4.8. </span>Glossary<a class="headerlink" href="#glossary" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
+<h2><span class="section-number">4.9. </span>Glossary<a class="headerlink" href="#glossary" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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 <dt id="term-block-comment">block comment</dt><dd><p>A comment which is the only text on one or more lines of code. Block
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-<h2><span class="section-number">4.9. </span>Exercises<a class="headerlink" href="#exercises" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
+<h2><span class="section-number">4.10. </span>Exercises<a class="headerlink" href="#exercises" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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     :card: quiz shadow
 
-    .. link-button:: https://bb.imperial.ac.uk/webapps/blackboard/content/launchAssessment.jsp?course_id=_23985_1&content_id=_2049499_1&mode=view
+    .. link-button:: https://bb.imperial.ac.uk/webapps/assessment/take/launchAssessment.jsp?course_id=_25965_1&content_id=_2054444_1
         :text: This week's quiz
         :classes: stretched-link 
 
 
-Obtain the :doc:`skeleton code for these exercises from GitHub classroom <not_released>`. 
+Obtain the `skeleton code for these exercises from GitHub Classroom <https://classroom.github.com/a/mElLR0AD>`__. 
 The skeleton code contains a :mod:`polynomial` package with a version of 
 the :class:`Polynomial` class.
 

_sources/4_style.rst.txt

@@ -985,7 +985,22 @@ and the other from the `Numpy
 consistently use one of these styles across a whole project. Clearly if you are
 contributing code to an existing project then you should follow their style.
 
-
+A brief diversion into cellular automata
+----------------------------------------
+
+We'll now take a brief diversion into a completely different area of
+mathematics: cellular automata. This is entirely irrelevant to the contents of
+this course, except that it provides a useful and, hopefully, interesting basis
+for this week's exercises. `The game of life
+<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life>`__ is a mathematical
+system invented by the mathematician `John Horton Conway FRS
+<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway>`__ in 1970. The board of the
+game is a grid of squares, like an infinite piece of graph paper (though we'll
+only work with finite boards, since our computers have finite memory). Each cell
+on the board is either alive (value 1) or dead (value 0). The only human
+interaction is to set the initial state of every square on the board to either
+alive or dead. The game then proceeds as a series of 
+ 
 Glossary
 --------
 

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 <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="4_style.html#parsimony">4.5. Parsimony</a></li>
 <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="4_style.html#comments">4.6. Comments</a></li>
 <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="4_style.html#docstrings">4.7. Docstrings</a></li>
-<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="4_style.html#glossary">4.8. Glossary</a></li>
-<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="4_style.html#exercises">4.9. Exercises</a></li>
+<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="4_style.html#a-brief-diversion-into-cellular-automata">4.8. A brief diversion into cellular automata</a></li>
+<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="4_style.html#glossary">4.9. Glossary</a></li>
+<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="4_style.html#exercises">4.10. Exercises</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="5_abstract_data_types.html">5. Abstract data types</a><ul>