Programming from A to Z 2008

The work of NYU's ITP students finds its way into the world in many forms: gallery shows, performances, and screenings. But what about those projects that don’t need a screen or physical venue? This book, produced by the students of the class Programming from A to Z, takes a step towards exploring this question. How do we document and present our work in printed form? The course focuses on procedural analysis and generation of text. Within this book, you’ll find a collection of text-based programming experiments from literary visualizations to algorithmically generated news headlines to a recipe for Southern Comfort Cake by none other than the not-at-all-human robot chef.