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Live Coding
A User's Manual
ISBN: 9780262544818
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
The first comprehensive introduction to the origins, aspirations, and evolution of live coding.
How Pac-Man Eats
ISBN: 9780262044653
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 15, 2020
How the tools and concepts for making games are connected to what games can and do mean; with examples ranging from Papers, Please to Dys4ia.
Critical Code Studies
ISBN: 9780262043656
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 3, 2020
An argument that we must read code for more than what it does—we must consider what it means.
The Software Arts
ISBN: 9780262039703
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2019
An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software's evolution.
Coding Literacy
How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing
ISBN: 9780262036245
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 28, 2017
How the theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming in its historical, social and conceptual contexts.
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10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
ISBN: 9780262526746
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 29, 2014
A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing.
Expressive Processing
Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies
ISBN: 9780262517539
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 10, 2012
From the complex city-planning game SimCity to the virtual therapist Eliza: how computational processes open possibilities for understanding and creating digital media.
Code/Space
Software and Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780262525916
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 10, 2014
An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.
Programmed Visions
Software and Memory
ISBN: 9780262518512
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 11, 2013
A theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world.
The Stack
On Software and Sovereignty
ISBN: 9780262029575
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 19, 2016
A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture.

Live Coding
A User's Manual
ISBN: 9780262544818
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
The first comprehensive introduction to the origins, aspirations, and evolution of live coding.
How Pac-Man Eats
ISBN: 9780262044653
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 15, 2020
How the tools and concepts for making games are connected to what games can and do mean; with examples ranging from Papers, Please to Dys4ia.
Critical Code Studies
ISBN: 9780262043656
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 3, 2020
An argument that we must read code for more than what it does—we must consider what it means.
The Software Arts
ISBN: 9780262039703
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2019
An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software's evolution.
Coding Literacy
How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing
ISBN: 9780262036245
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 28, 2017
How the theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming in its historical, social and conceptual contexts.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
ISBN: 9780262526746
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 29, 2014
A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing.
Expressive Processing
Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies
ISBN: 9780262517539
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 10, 2012
From the complex city-planning game SimCity to the virtual therapist Eliza: how computational processes open possibilities for understanding and creating digital media.
Code/Space
Software and Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780262525916
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 10, 2014
An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.
Programmed Visions
Software and Memory
ISBN: 9780262518512
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 11, 2013
A theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world.
The Stack
On Software and Sovereignty
ISBN: 9780262029575
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 19, 2016
A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture.