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Contributor(s): Montfort, Nick (Author), Baudoin, Patsy (Author), Bell, John (Author)

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 ISBN: 0262526743     ISBN-13: 9780262526746
Publisher: MIT Press
OUR PRICE: $36.75  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Programming Languages - General
- Social Science | Media Studies
Dewey: 005.262
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Series: Software Studies (Mit Press)
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.72" W x 9.02" L (1.28 lbs) 328 pages
Features: Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
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 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.


Contributor Bio(s): Mateas, Michael: - Michael Mateas is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa CruzSample, Mark: - Mark Sample is Associate Professor of English at George Mason University.Douglass, Jeremy: - Jeremy Douglass is a postdoctoral researcher in software studies at the University of California, San Diego, in affiliation with Calit2.Vawter, Noah: - Noah Vawter is a sound artist.Baudoin, Patsy: - Patsy Baudoin is Digital Humanities, Media and Film Studies, and Women's & Gender Studies Librarian at MIT.Bogost, Ian: - Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, and the coauthor of Newsgames: Journalism at Play (MIT Press, 2010).Wardrip-Fruin, Noah: - Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coeditor of four collections published by the MIT Press: with Nick Montfort, The New Media Reader (2003); with Pat Harrigan, First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (2004), Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media (2007), and Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives (2009).Montfort, Nick: - 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$(205.5+RND(1)); GOTO 10; and the coeditor of The New Media Reader (all published by the MIT Press).Reas, Casey: - Casey Reas is Professor of Design Media Arts at UCLA and coauthor of Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (MIT Press, 2007).Fuller, Matthew: - Matthew Fuller is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Digital Culture Unit, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture (MIT Press), Software Studies (MIT Press), and, with Andrew Goffey, of Evil Media (MIT Press) as well as Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software and other books.Manovich, Lev: - Lev Manovich is Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego. His book The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001) has been hailed as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan."Bell, John: - John Bell is Assistant Professor of Innovative Communication Design at the University of Maine.Marino, Mark C.: - Mark C. Marino is Professor of Writing at the University of Southern California, where he directs the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab. He is a coauthor of 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); GOTO 10 (MIT Press).
 
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