10 PRINT CHR Nick Montfort ... [et al.].
Contributor(s): Montfort, Nick | IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
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BookSeries: Software studies (Cambridge, Mass.): Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, c2013Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2012]Description: 1 PDF (xi, 309 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262305501.Subject(s): BASIC (Computer program language) -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. | History.DDC classification: 005.26/2 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.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.
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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.
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