Curses

Tutorials

Gerla's 3-pager
Halim and Raymond's 9-pager
AIX Programming manual chapter on Curses at UPenn.

All the ncurses functions have man pages. man ncurses is the overall man page; it has table of individual function pages, 99% of which start with curs_, e.g. curs_color for color-related ncurses functions, curs_border for lines and boxes functions, etc.

The AIX manual has a good description of each function.

Demos

demo1.cpp
rings.cpp lots of lights.
mouse.cpp get mouse clicks.
sysact.c Monitors system activity.