10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 / Nick Montfort [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montfort, Nick.

Contributor:

Montfort, Nick.

Series:

Software studies (Cambridge, Mass.)

Software studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

BASIC (Computer program language)--History.

BASIC (Computer program language).

Computer programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 309 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge The MIT Press 2012

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-285) and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780262304573

0262304570

9781283953122

1283953129

9780262305501

026230550X

OCLC:

1053145375

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access