10PRINT

“10 PRINT” is a sort of Hello, world in the generative arts world. I somehow was unaware of it even though I spent a bit of time building demos on the Commodore 64; probably this was because I learned BASIC on the Apple II where it wasn’t as commonly referenced.

But later in life I started following the work of Casey Reas and he frequently starts introductory lectures with a reference to it. So when I wanted to try authoring a PICO-8 cartridge, it was natural to draw up a simple sprite and write 18 lines of code in honor of this famous one-liner.