The Art of Code

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Starts from hands‑on demos: Conway’s Game of Life builds logic gates and a Gosper glider gun that emits a new glider every 27 generations, a Mandelbrot zoom shows infinite self‑similar detail, and DeepDream produces hallucinatory dogs. Shows concrete artifacts: an obfuscated C Flappy Bird, a 1 KB JavaScript chess engine, a webpage that prints its own HTML via CSS pseudo‑elements, and a 128‑language polyglot quine. Launches the Rockstar programming language and the browser interpreter at codewithrockstar.com, with multiple implementations appearing within 48 hours, and ends with a live Sonic Pi fizzbuzz performance.

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1. 0:00Childhood to code as art
2. 2:12Art mirroring nature and tech
3. 8:32Conway's Game of Life
4. 17:14Mandelbrot set complexity
5. 21:07Computers creating art
6. 28:07Obfuscated code contest
7. 35:55Esoteric languages beauty
8. 37:41Live demo excitement
9. 40:52Rockstar language origin
10. 51:25Live Rockstar FizzBuzz

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