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• Main Author: Montfort, Nick (auth)
• Other Authors: Baudoin, Patsy (auth), Bell, John (auth), Bogost, Ian (auth), Douglass, Jeremy (auth), Marino, Mark C. (auth), Mateas, Michael (auth), Reas, Casey (auth), Sample, Mark (auth), Vawter, Noah (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2014
• Series: Software Studies
• Subjects: Advertising & society; Programming & scripting languages: general; programming; BASIC
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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 co...