10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing
by Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample, Noah Vawter
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Book Description
This book takes a single line of code - the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title - and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. The authors of this collaboratively written book treat code not as merely functional but as a text - in the case of 10 PRINT, a text that appeared in many different printed sources - that yields a story about its making, its purpose, its assumptions, and more. They consider randomness and regularity in computing and art, the maze in culture, the popular BASIC programming language, and the highly influential Commodore 64 computer.This open book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY). You can download 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 ebook for free in PDF format (34.9 MB).
Table of Contents
5
SERIES FOREWORD
10
INTRODUCTION
15
REM VARIATIONS IN BASIC
20
MAZES
25
REM PORTS TO OTHER PLATFORMS
30
REGULARITY
35
REM VARIATIONS IN PROCESSING
40
RANDOMNESS
45
REM ONE-LINERS
50
BASIC
55
REM A PORT TO THE ATARI VCS
60
THE COMMODORE 64
65
REM MAZE WALKER IN BASIC
70
CONCLUSION
75
END
80
THANKS
85
WORKS CITED
90
VARIANTS OF10 PRINT
95
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
100
INDEX
Book Details
Title
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Subject
Computer Science
Publisher
MIT Press
Published
2013
Pages
323
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13
9780262526746
ISBN10
0262526743
ISBN13 Digital
9780262018463
ISBN10 Digital
0262018462
PDF Size
34.9 MB
License
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