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Contents [hide] 1 Current Work by Authors 2 Draft Text for the Book 3 Reviews of Chapters 4 To Be Written (Future Draft Text) 5 From MIT Press 6 Notes, Etc.

Current Work by Authors

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{| border="1" ! Name ! Recent ! Current ! Next |- | Casey | Visual Review | Randomness Draft | Generative Design, Remarks: Processing Mazes |- | Ian | ? | ? | ? |- | Jeremy | Mazes | Unavailable until Thu Feb 10 | 1. Revision of Ports and Variations as per Paty's review. 2. LOGO section, both port and connecting to 1980s context of constructionism / constructivism and the visual in educational IT. |- | John | BASIC review | Iteration | ? |- | Mark M. | Lead on Maze Chapter | Finishing up Intro and Concl. on Maze Chapter | ? |- | Mark S. | Mazes Chapter | Adding to Random Chapter (Randomness and Narrative) | ? |- | Michael | ? | ? | ? |- | Nick | Mazes completion, setting up contracts | Unavailable until 3/17 | BASIC draft |- | Noah | Randomness/II. Randomness and Aesthetics, Pre-Computing, Randomness/V. The C64 and RND, Notes on C64 and randomness: The Random Function (RND) as used in Commodore 64 BASIC, | reverse engineering random function in Dartmouth BASIC source code | Next - ? |- | Patsy | Mazes | not currently writing | research: transmission of BASIC |}

Draft Text for the Book

• Introduction
  • A Neophyte’s Musings about Code (Patsy)
  • The Magic of Translation (Patsy)
  • Writing at Length About a Single, Short Piece (Patsy)

• Remarks: Random Mazes

• Kindred Code
  • Algorithms and Action (Mark S.)
  • Screensavers and Computer Dreams (Nick)
  • Dancing Programs (Patsy w/ Nick)
  • Generative Design (Casey)

• Remarks: Processing Mazes

• Mazes

• Remarks: One-Liners

• Randomness

• Remarks: thread

• BASIC
  • BASIC in Print and in Memory (Nick)
  • Typography and BASIC (Mark)

• Remarks: Mazes across Platforms
  • Ports and Variations (Jeremy) Review of Ports and Variations by Patsy

• The Commodore 64
  • Assembly vs BASIC (Ian)
  • Hidden Code (John)
  • RUN (Casey)
  • Keyboard and Character Map (Jeremy)

• Remarks: Maze Walker
  • Expanding 10 PRINT (Michael M.)
  • Walking (outline for complete chapter)

• Conclusion

Reviews of Chapters

• Review of illustrations by Casey
• Review of C64 by Jeremy
• review of early Mazes material by Nick
• 2nd review by Noah
• Review of Randomness by Mark S
• Review of BASIC by John
• Review of Expanding 10 PRINT by John

To Be Written (Future Draft Text)

• 10 Print in LOGO/Turtle Geometry (Jeremy)
• 10 Print Variorum (Nick, Mark S., Others?)
• 10 Print, 6502 asm, and the C64 Platform (Ian)
• Porting, emulating, translating, preserving ... digital survival (Patsy, Jeremy, Mark S.)
• Iteration (John)

From MIT Press

• Draft Contract 1
• Reviews of our Proposal

Notes, Etc.

• On the QWERTY Keyboard Layout (Nick)
• Rnaodm Nmbeurs (updated 11/6/10) (Noah)
• Randomness in the Arts (Casey)
• "True" BASIC maze generator in Compute (Nick)
• PATH and 10 Print Interpretation (Jeremy & Michael)
• Colors, foreground / background (?)
• 10 Print in a visual context
• 10 Print Visual Variations
• Search and Representation (Warren)
• Mazes, Patterns, and Textiles Notes
• Mazes, Maze Walking, Generate and Test (Michael)
• Outakes from Maze Chapter (Mark M. et al)
• Random number generation (Ian, Michael)
• Notes on Code
• Notes on Randomness
• Three-Line Version in the Commodore 64 User's Guide, 1982
• One-Line Version in RUN, 1984
• BASIC: 10 PRINT CHR$(109+RND(1)*2); : GOTO 10
• BASIC: 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
• C64 with keyboard visible: http://www.henseleit.de/bilder/800px-Commodore64.jpg
• Study of the techniques for emulation programming by Victor Moya del Barrio: http://personals.ac.upc.edu/vmoya/docs/emuprog.pdf