Jim Hall
Read these popular articles from the last year to get started on your programming journey.
Programming
Don Watkins
You can use open-source tools to produce holiday cards this year. Suppose you have a great photo...
With a little Bash scripting, you can automate tasks on your Linux system. Learn more with these...
Generate colorful ASCII art from a C program using FreeDOS.
Sometimes it's easier to define your API to hide the platform-specific code
Jim shares this follow-up to an earlier article about programming across platforms.
Using these C compiler preprocessor directives to detect the operating system can make it easier to support...
Use the flexibility of ncurses to create a guess-the-number game on Linux.
1 When programs like vi first came along, terminals had a predefined size: usually 80 columns and...
Let the kernel generate random numbers for you using 'getrandom.'
You can create your own programs that use a text user interface to control the screen.
David Both
Tomorrow, Saturday as I write this, we'll be heading to Atlantic Beach, our current favorite. By then...
The “Guess the number” game is a fun way to learn a new programming language.
Explore classic programming in FORTRAN 77 with this sample program.
Take a step back in time to a time when programs were punched on cards.
Explore how this popular word processor stored data, so you can convert your old files.