{"id":8627,"date":"2012-12-07T16:02:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T22:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8627"},"modified":"2012-12-07T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T22:03:58","slug":"computer-programming-10-print-chr-205-5-rnd-1-goto-10-from-mit-press-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8627","title":{"rendered":"10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10 from MIT Press, reviewed."},"content":{"rendered":"
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10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a new book collaboratively written by 10 authors, takes a single line of code\u2014inscribed in the book\u2019s mouthful of a title\u2014and explodes it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

That one line, a seemingly clumsy scrap of BASIC, generates a fascinatingly complicated maze on a Commodore 64<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via Computer programming: 10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10 from MIT Press, reviewed. – Slate Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

The book, which has also been released for free download<\/a> under a Creative Commons license, unspools 10 PRINT\u2019s strange history and dense web of cultural connections, winding its way through the histories of mazes and labyrinths, grids in modern art, minimalist music and dance, randomness, repetition, textiles, screensavers, and Greek mythology. There are forays into early computer graphics, hacking, Cold War military strategy and Pac-Man. References abound, from the Commodore 64 user\u2019s manual to Roland Barthes\u2019 S\/Z<\/em><\/a>. This is a book where Dungeons and Dragons and Abstract Expressionism get equal consideration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10, a new book collaboratively written by 10 authors, takes a single line of code\u2014inscribed in the book\u2019s mouthful of a title\u2014and explodes it. That one line, a seemingly clumsy scrap … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1001,264],"class_list":["post-8627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-basic","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8631,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627\/revisions\/8631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}