I have been challanged to make a "Game of Life" program by a friend (click here for the rules) I wasw thinking making a 2d array of the "field" and then each turn checking each cell for neighbours etc ... using 0 for empty 1 for occupied. Can anyone think of an easier way? Would using vectors let me have a infinite field size and speed things up by not checking cells that are out of range of occupied cells? I don't really want any help with the code (thats why im doing it hehe) I could just use some help with th logic.

Thanks in advance :)