Programming is ultimately learned and understanding is deeply internalized by doing, not simply seeing or reading. Let's take our own advice and cut a couple of decent code examples, to illustrate using the POSIX (interval) timer APIs. (Of course, dear reader, it implies you do the same!)
The first sample program is a small CLI game of "how quickly can you react"? The second sample program is a simple implementation of a run-walk timer. Read on for the gory details.
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