Considered by many to be just a dull output for sequential text, the command-line terminal is a veritable canvas to the creative software developer. With the cursor as the brush, entire graphical user ...

How to use curses to draw to the terminal screen. While graphical user interfaces are very cool, not every program needs to run with a point-and-click interface. For example, the venerable vi editor ...

Jim demonstrates color manipulation with curses by adding colors to his terminal adventure game. Drawing on the screen is all very well and good, but if it's all white-on-black text, your program ...