10 PRINTCHR$(205.5+RND(1)): GOTO 10. Nick Montfort. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013. 309 pages with illustrations. ISBN 9780262018463. Hardcover. Lacks dustjacket. Tips of boards are bumped. Remainder mark on bottom edge, Clean; unmarked.  

"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 codenot 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 itsmaking, its purpose, its assumptions, and more. They consider randomness andregularity in computing and art, the maze in culture, the popular BASICprogramming language, and the highly influential Commodore 64 computer.”