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        Live Coding

        Live Coding

        Live Coding

        A User's Manual

        by Alan F. Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean and Thor Magnusson

        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

        How Pac-Man Eats

        How Pac-Man Eats

        by Noah Wardrip-Fruin

        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

        Critical Code Studies

        Critical Code Studies

        by Mark C. Marino

        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

        The Software Arts

        The Software Arts

        by Warren Sack

        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

        Coding Literacy

        Coding Literacy

        How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing

        by Annette Vee

        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

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

        by Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample and Noah Vawter

        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

        Expressive Processing

        Expressive Processing

        Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies

        by Noah Wardrip-Fruin

        With Michael Crumpton

        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

        Code/Space

        Code/Space

        Software and Everyday Life

        by Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge

        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

        Programmed Visions

        Programmed Visions

        Software and Memory

        by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

        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

        The Stack

        The Stack

        On Software and Sovereignty

        by Benjamin H. Bratton

        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.
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