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DEAFBEEF and the Craft of Generative Art

Vaulted by PROOF

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Is There a Syntax Error?

i really wanted to programm so i begged my parents for something. So i'd go to the public libraryand i'd find books from like the seventies, or probably eighties. The books from the eighties nd had code listings of games written in basic. And so i'd hall those home and typed them all in. One of them was a star treck game that also randomly generated the universe that you were traveling around it. It's actually a fairly historical and famous one. I'd have to dig into it to see, but ye, tracking down that one little syntax error that prevents you from playing your game. You have a strong motivation to learn the nuts and bolts

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