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In RealLife, no software developer goes about things that way. When developing programs, you need to study and create every single line of source code with all your focus. Since this isn't [[RuleOfCool cool enough]] the Cool Code of Source will be forever running down the screen.

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* An episode of ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' involved someone using a hack to cheat in a ''Gears of War 3'' tournament. At one point we see the hack's source code. Apparently, it's coded in... HTML. [[http://pccode.pl/hakowanie-gry-gears-of-war-3-wedlug-csi-ny/ The author of this article]] (in Polish) even tracked down the original website from which the HTML code was taken for the show.

Related to MatrixRainingCode and ComputersSpeakBinary. See also UsefulNotes/ProgrammingLanguage.

* ''Film/M3GAN: Linux kernel's groups.c in Kurt's file-stealing, plus rapidly scrolling debug logs (lampshaded) while [=M3GAN=] is wired up in the lab near the end

If there's a show set in the 21st century, TheTeam will have a hacker, an operator, or other kind of computer user on board. Since the writer wants to portray that person as well-informed, there must be trillions of lines of source code flowing over the computer screen.

In RealLife, no software developer goes about things that way. When developing programs, you need to study and create every single line of source code with all your focus. Since this isn't [[RuleOfCool cool enough]] the Cool Code of Source will be forever running the screen.

* In ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'', it's:

* In the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' episode "The Day of Saggitarius", Nagato with the help of a macro program reconfigures the entire steering method of a video game in C.

* In the original ''Anime/BubbleGumCrisis'' it's typically music; track lists from the BGC OST, lyrics from the same, or sometimes from Madonna music. Very occasionally there will be some BASIC code.

For an automatic gibberish source code generator, go [[https://hackertyper.net/ here]].

* The T-800 in ''Film/TheTerminator'' has 6502 assembly code scrolling on the RoboCam. 6502 Assembly code, generally acknowledged as [[http://www.pagetable.com/?p=64 Apple II code originally taken from Nibble Magazine]].

* ''Series/StargateSG1'': At some point, code from the Replicators programming turns out to be code for a web page, as noted on Website/TheDailyWTF: [[http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Stargate-Code-of-the-Replicators.aspx Code of the Replicators]].

* Whenever actual source code is shown in ''Series/ReBootTheGuardianCode'', it's always snippets coming from [[https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms701881(v=vs.85).aspx the Microsoft Developer Network]] or [[http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/2e/ics2/code/conc/echoservert.c the Carnegie Mellon University]].

* Mi-Sex's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m8IOD-wk9g Computer Games]]" uses BASIC code that looks like it's for a game, since it has the line PRINT "WHEN YOU SEE AN (@) TO THE LEFT OF [...] YOUR TURN."

* One cutscene in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes]]'' shows a computer screen with complicated code showing up on it; [[http://multimedia.cx/eggs/mgs-vp3-easter-egg/ it's a hexdump of a gzip file]].

in RealLife, no software developer goes about things that way. When developing programs, you need to study and create every single line of source code with all your focus. Since this isn't [[RuleOfCool cool enough]] the Cool Code of Source will be forever running the screen.

Related to MatrixRainingCode and ZeroesAndOnes. See also UsefulNotes/ProgrammingLanguage.

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* ''Series/StargateSG1'': [[http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Stargate-Code-of-the-Replicators.aspx Code of the Replicators]].

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* Kobayashi codes in [[StealthPun Python]] in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' (the anime anyways, the manga never gives a detailed view of her screen). One episode even had scene transitions composed of 5 character commands.

Related to MatrixRainingCode and ZeroesAndOnes. See also ProgrammingLanguage.

* Kobayashi codes in [[StealthPun Python]] in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' (the anime anyways, the manga never gives a detailed view of her screen). One episode even had code scene transitions (though they were only 5 characters long).

* Kobayashi codes in [[StealthPun Python]] in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' (the anime anyways, the manga never gives a detailed view of her screen). One episode even had Python scene transitions (though they were only 5 characters long).

Even the designers of TV shows have to get those lines of code somewhere -- so, have you ever wondered what those programs that we get to see on those screens really are? Is there some reasoning to which source code we get to see?

* [[Anime/SerialExperimentsLain Lain]] apparently does all her hackery in Lisp. Specifically, she's implementing Conway's Game of Life, with code from the CMU AI repository.
** She also does C++ in the artbook.

* An episode of ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' involved someone using a hack to cheat in a ''GearsOfWar 3'' tournament. At one point we see the hack's source code. Apparently, it's coded in... HTML. [[http://pccode.pl/hakowanie-gry-gears-of-war-3-wedlug-csi-ny/ The author of this article]] (in Polish) even tracked down the original website from which the HTML code was taken for the show.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', once you get backstage there are monitors that are basically scrolling code, except really they're scrolling distorted cake recipes.

* There's a more literal example in ''VideoGame/YarsRevenge''. The Rainbow Colored field where you are immune to the little tracker guy? That's the source code of the game.

* DCComics published a limited series called ''TheHackerFiles'' in the early 90s. At one point, we see two examples of code, which are supposed to represent very different levels of competence. They got it exactly right, averting this trope entirely.

* The opening sequence in the film ''Antitrust'' was filled with bits of HTML flashing across the screen. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pQnV_G17hY#t=0m50s Here's a clip.]]