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Nick Montfort
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Paperback. Series: Software Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, 69 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JFC; UMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 580.
A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing. 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 ... Read more
A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Software Studies
Condition
New
Weight
580g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262526746
SKU
V9780262526746
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About Nick Montfort
Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at MIT. He is the author of Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities; the coauthor of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System and 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10; and the coeditor of The New Media Reader (all published by the ... Read more
Reviews for 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (Software Studies)
10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10, a new book collaboratively written by 10 authors, takes a single line of code-inscribed in the book's mouthful of a title-and explodes it. That one line, a seemingly clumsy scrap of BASIC, generates a fascinatingly complicated maze on a Commodore 64.... Though 10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : ... Read more