Challenge! Processing Variations of 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
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10 months ago
With a group of co-authors, I just published a book titled 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10. You can download a PDF of the book from the
10PRINT.org website.
You can see photos of the book on Flickr. Here's a description:
Here's the challenge—read through the chapter REM VARIATIONS IN PROCESSING and create your own interpretations of this one-line BASIC program. Please post links, code, and thoughts there.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.