10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1));: GOTO 10

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (Software Studies)
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.

Table of Contents

5 SERIES FOREWORD
10 INTRODUCTION
15 REM VARIATIONS IN BASIC
20 MAZES
25 REM PORTS TO OTHER PLATFORMS
30 REGULARITY
35 REM VARIATIONS IN PROCESSING
40 RANDOMNESS
45 REM ONE-LINERS
50 BASIC
55 REM A PORT TO THE ATARI VCS
60 THE COMMODORE 64
65 REM MAZE WALKER IN BASIC
70 CONCLUSION
75 END
80 THANKS
85 WORKS CITED
90 VARIANTS OF 10 PRINT
95 ABOUT THE AUTHORS
100 INDEX