Dan Gookin's Guide to Ncurses Programming

by Dan Gookin

Get up and running quickly with Ncruses programming. This tutorial covers all the basics, from configuring Ncurses to coding multi-window, full-screen applications for the text mode, terminal window. You must have a foundation in C programming and be familiar with the terminal shell, such as bash. This book has all the information and entertainment you'd expect from a Gookin book. From the author and creator of the original For Dummies title, "DOS For Dummies," as well as multitudinous other books, including "Beginning Programming With C For Dummies."

238 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 5, 2017

Reviews

[Taneli · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book for learning ncurses. It skips all the basic C programming things, so it is straight to the point. The text is light and easy to follow, all of the examples are simple an to the point, so no pages are wasted. A few typos were scattered within the pages, but they are few and far apart. Genuinely the best ncurses material I have seen.

[Edwin Dalorzo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had been meaning to learn Ncurses for a while. I believe Dan Gookin's book is awesome. It covers all the basic stuff you can do with the famous library. While I was reading the book I developed a small console game and I was really happy with the results. Definitively one of the best how-to guides that I found this year.

[Lloyd Rochester · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book will definitely get your up and running with ncurses. It covers most, unfortunately, not all the questions I had. But after reading you should have a strong foundation to do most anything you want.

[Derik · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun and easy introduction to text-based applications using the Ncurses library. The examples are clear and you learn an aspect of the library with each example.

[Xaadsdasd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great

[Abhishek Mishra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent introduction to ncurses

Recommended for ncurses novice. Starts basic and builds on top of earlier concepts in every chapter. Lots of working examples and exercises.

[Laurence Scotford · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a useful book if you are completely new to ncurses and want a fairly gentle tour of the library's key features.

As the examples are fairly trivial though, it stops short though of being a guide to building complete ncurses applications and it doesn't cover commonly used supporting libraries like panel and menus.

So, in summary, it's a useful first step, but you'll need to research beyond this volume if you're planning on building a significant ncurses application.