Game of Life Implementation | Dataford Interview Questions

Implement Conway's Game of Life in your preferred programming language, ensuring clean code structure and comprehensive test coverage.

Implement advance_game_of_life(board, steps), where board is a rectangular list of 0 and 1 integers. Return a new board after the requested number of generations; do not mutate the input. Cells outside the board are always dead. For each generation, a live cell survives with two or three neighbors, and a dead cell becomes live with exactly three neighbors.

Input and Output

steps is a nonnegative integer. Return a board with the same dimensions.

Constraints

1 <= board.length <= 100
1 <= board[0].length <= 100
Every row has the same length
Each cell is either 0 or 1
0 <= steps <= 1000

Function Signature

def advance_game_of_life(board, steps):

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