Title 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)) :GOTO 10 / Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample, Noah Vawter

Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2013] ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 309 pages) Series Software studies Software studies (Cambridge, Mass.) Contents REM Variations in BASIC -- Mazes -- Rem Ports to other platforms -- Regularity -- REM Variations in processing -- Randomness -- REM One-liners -- BASIC -- REM A port to the Atari VCS -- The Commodore 64 -- REM Maze walker in BASIC -- Conclusion -- End Summary 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 Analysis DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General COMPUTER SCIENCE/General SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-285) and index Notes Print version record; resource not viewed Subject BASIC (Computer program language) -- History COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- C++ SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies. Programming & scripting languages: general. BASIC (Computer program language) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Montfort, Nick, author. LC no. 2020719726 ISBN 026230550X 9780262305501 9780262304573 0262304570 9780262526746 0262526743

Other Titles TEN PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1));:GOTO 10 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1))[semi-colon] [colon] GOTO 10

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