Jim Hall

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Minnesota

Jim Hall is an open source software advocate and developer, best known for usability testing in GNOME and as the founder + project coordinator of FreeDOS. At work, Jim is CEO of Hallmentum, an IT executive consulting company that provides hands-on IT Leadership training, workshops, and coaching.

Open Sourcerer People's Choice Award People's Choice Award 2018 Author Linux Contributor Club

Authored Content

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5 ways to learn the C programming language in 2022

With only a little knowledge of C, you can do a lot.

5 tips for learning a new programming language in 2022

With the power of open source, programming can be accessible to anyone. Find a project you want to work on, and let that be your first entry to programming.

Open source tools for running a small business in 2022

These articles show the power of open source in business as tools, platforms, or integration points.

5 ways open source software transformed business in 2021

This collection of articles shows how businesses connect with open source software.

Who is the first Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative?

I recently interviewed Stefano Maffulli to learn more about him and his vision for the Open Source Initiative.

Print a Halloween greeting with ASCII art on Linux

Generate colorful ASCII art from a C program using either Linux or FreeDOS.

Authored Comments

Jim Hall

23 Jun 2021

Program on FreeDOS with Bywater BASIC

If you'd like to experiment with Bywater BASIC, you can download these sample programs from the FreeDOS Files Archive, at Ibiblio. I wrote these in the early days of FreeDOS to help people get started with BWBASIC.

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/basic/basprg/

The three sample programs are: a classic "guess the number" game, a "lemonade stand" game, and a game where you are king of an ancient empire. These are essentially math-based games.

If you're a beginner: Start with GUESS.BAS then examine LEMON.BAS

Jim Hall

20 Jun 2021

8 books open source technologists should read this summer

Great list!