Need help working on Game of Life program

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I have this template that the professor provided. But i am stuck at figuring out how to get the user to input numbers into the array and then how to build rules that determine what happens with the array. The rules are
a. A living cell dies of overcrowding in the next generation if it currently has 4 or more living neighbors. b. A living cell dies of loneliness in the next generation if it currently has only 0 or 1 living neighbors. c. An empty cell becomes a “birth” cell (becomes alive) in the next generation if it has exactly 3 living neighbors. d. All other cells remain unchanged.
Here is my code below.

  #include <iostream>

#include "ReadNumber.h"

using namespace std;

#include <conio.h>		// do this so we can use _kbhit in the code below
#include <memory.h>		// do this if you want to use memset in the code below
#include <stdlib.h>		// do this so we can use system in the code below
#include <time.h>		// do this so we can use the clock operations
#include <string.h>



void main()
	{
	const	long	NumCols(10);
	const	long	NumRows(10);
	bool	CurrGen[NumRows + 2][NumCols + 2];
	bool	NextGen[NumRows + 2][NumCols + 2];
	long	Col;
	long	Row;
			time_t	StopTime;	// time_t is a short way of writing unsigned long long
	const	time_t	TimeToWait(2);
	long	CurrentGeneration(0);

	memset(CurrGen, false, sizeof (bool)* (NumCols + 2) * (NumRows + 2));	// set all celss in an array (CurrGen) to a value (false), and need to know the size of the array in bytes
	memset(NextGen, false, sizeof (bool)* (NumCols + 2) * (NumRows + 2));

	for (Col = 1; Col <= NumCols; Col++)
		CurrGen[Col][Col] = true;


	cout << "Enter row you want alive" << endl;
		//	find out from the user which cells are initially alive (set up current generation)
		

				//	find out from the user which cells are initially alive (set up current generation)
	
																//		user enters a row and col for each cell they want occupied
	//		user will enter -1 and -1 to stop

	do	{						//	loop for each generation
		system("cls");			// clears the screen in windows, in UNIX change "cls" to "clear"
		cout << "\t\tGeneration: " << CurrentGeneration << endl;
		for (Row = 1; Row <= NumRows; Row++)	// display current generation
			{
			for (Col = 1; Col <= NumCols; Col++)
				cout << (CurrGen[Row][Col] ? '*' : ' ');
			// line above is the same as
			//	if (CurrGen [Row] [Col])
			//			cout << '*';
			//		else
			//			cout << ' ';
			cout << endl;
			}
		//		loop for each cell on the board
		//			get the number of living neighbors
		//			apply the rules
		//			save the info on what happens to cell into the other array (NextGen)
		//		memcpy (CurrGen, NextGen, sizeof (bool) * (NumCols + 2) * (NumRows + 2)); // copies cells from NextGen into CurrGen
		//		end the loop for this generation
		StopTime = time(0) + TimeToWait;	// time (0) gives back the current time in seconds since Jan 1, 1970
		while (time(0) < StopTime);		// keep looking at the clock until it is time to stop
		CurrentGeneration++;
		} while (!_kbhit());	// _kbhit gives back true if the user has hit a key, false if no key has been hit
	cout << "Bye" << endl;
	}