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Nick Montfort: “Line of Inquiry: Many Authors Explore Creative Computing Through a Short Program”

Engineering 2 Room 506 Engineering 2, 1156 High St‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

The following one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program: 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 continually generates a pleasing random maze pattern. In this talk, I argue that this tiny program can serve as a Rosetta Stone to help us understand the interconnected cultural and technical aspects of creative computing, practices of using the computer expressively and […]