From 0795f7bcfe15b5637092b9e050ea6144e6757791 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: laboon <laboon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:52:00 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] derp changes

---
 com/laboon/Cell.java     | 6 +++---
 com/laboon/JavaLife.java | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/com/laboon/Cell.java b/com/laboon/Cell.java
index f700d80..4d34ad2 100644
--- a/com/laboon/Cell.java
+++ b/com/laboon/Cell.java
@@ -66,11 +66,11 @@ public State iterate(int numNeighbors) {
 	public char getStateRep() {
 		char toReturn = ' ';
 		if (_state == State.DEAD) {
-			toReturn = '.';
+			toReturn = ' ';
 		} else if (_state == State.ALIVE) {
-			toReturn = 'X';
+			toReturn = '*';
 		} else {
-			toReturn = '?';
+			toReturn = ' ';
 		}
 		return toReturn;
 	}
diff --git a/com/laboon/JavaLife.java b/com/laboon/JavaLife.java
index f5c5a8e..8f5bcd3 100644
--- a/com/laboon/JavaLife.java
+++ b/com/laboon/JavaLife.java
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ public class JavaLife {
 
 	/**
 	 * 
-	 * @param size Size of world
-	 * @param seed Random number seed
+	 * @param size Size of a world
+	 * @param seed Random number seed for RNG
 	 * @param percent Percent of cells alive at beginning
 	 * @param maxIterations Maximum number of iterations
 	 */
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ public class JavaLife {
 	public JavaLife(int size, int seed, int percent, int maxIterations) {
 		World w = new World(size, seed, percent);
 		System.out.println("Initial Configuration:");
-		System.out.println(w.toString());
+		System.out.println(  w.toString()  );
 		for (int j=0; j < maxIterations; j++) {
-			w = w.iterate();
+			w   = w.iterate();
 			System.out.println("Iteration " + (j + 1) + ":");
 			System.out.println(w.toString());
 		}

From def955004add06a4417032ee966bb464281cc0ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Snow <scsnow54@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:55:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Optmized toString using StringBuilder

---
 com/laboon/World.java | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/com/laboon/World.java b/com/laboon/World.java
index 98b037c..437d895 100644
--- a/com/laboon/World.java
+++ b/com/laboon/World.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package com.laboon;
 
 import java.util.Random;
+import java.lang.StringBuilder;
 
 public class World {
 
@@ -115,19 +116,19 @@ public World iterate() {
 	 */
 	
 	public String toString() {
-		String toReturn = "  ";
+        StringBuilder toReturn = new StringBuilder("  ");
 		for (int j= 0; j < _size; j++) {
-			toReturn += String.valueOf(j % 10);
+			toReturn.append(String.valueOf(j % 10));
 		}
-		toReturn += "\n";
+		toReturn.append("\n");
 		for (int j = 0; j < _size; j++ ) {
-			toReturn += String.valueOf(j % 10) + " ";
+			toReturn.append(String.valueOf(j % 10) + " ");
 			for (int k = 0; k < _size; k++) {
-				toReturn += (_world[j][k].getStateRep());
+				toReturn.append(_world[j][k].getStateRep());
 			}
-			toReturn += "\n";
+			toReturn.append("\n");
 		}
-		return toReturn;
+		return toReturn.toString();
 	}
 	
 	/**