Who said code is poetry

Unlike the original competition Holden entered, he wanted to have each of the programs stand next to the poem and the code that belongs to it. Each poem has its own theme or subject, and some have different-colored syntax highlighting to make some of lines stand out. Holden said he had some fun working in so many languages, but part of the challenge was trying to make the code as small or as simple as possible.

The code that produces the animation needed to be hidden somehow inside each poem, while still allowing it to run as intended. A weird, esoteric programming language called Piet was one of the more interesting languages to work with, according to Holden. Piet takes input like a picture instead of source code, and then it interprets the pixels in the picture as the code.

When the program runs, it produces a haiku poem on the left, giving viewers a different experience than some of the other ones on the site, said Holden. Looking at the code for the program, Kerr thought it was a good jumping-off point for one of his poems. On the right, the program runs in a chaotic manner, as if someone is having an inner monologue that never quite gets to the end, said Kerr.

Kerr said there were a few occasions where Holden dabbled in poetry himself. She is a graduate from Delaware Valley University, Pa. Moore has reported for Philly. For my generation, the interface to our imagination and to our world is software. This is why we need to get a more diverse set of people to see computers not as boring, mechanical and lonely things, but as something they can poke, tinker with and turn around. Little girls are precise, they can concentrate, they are really awesome at telling stories, at expressing themselves and asking the right questions.

But their parents know. They think programming is an esoteric, scientific discipline, full of mystery, almost like nuclear physics as far as relevance to day-to-day life goes. So when I was studying in school, instead of learning to use computers, I got excited about creating make believe worlds, conjugating French irregular verbs, knitting socks and the philosophy of Bertrand Russell. And I started to feel that maybe this world of technology was indeed lonely, boring and mechanical. It all just happened really fast.

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