Thread: beginner help with C (pointers)

Oh! Meldreth, thank you soooo much!! That is very helpful, I really appreciate your time in doing that.

that's weird. i don't usually get words of thanks when i give a super sarcastic answer...

Then you didn't understand how much of a beginner I was.

No I cannot, but I have a start. I was looking for help, not an aggressive attack of sarcasm to put me down. Which makes me think the both of you have insecurities of some measure where you feel the need to protect yourself with sarcastic remarks that only let the world see a superficial part of who you are.

I am a beginner, 100% and if you do not want to waste your time with me, then please don't.

oh, i'm sorry i tried to help you then. i won't make that mistake again.

Originally Posted by likewise

No I cannot, but I have a start. I was looking for help, not an aggressive attack of sarcasm to put me down. Which makes me think the both of you have insecurities of some measure where you feel the need to protect yourself with sarcastic remarks that only let the world see a superficial part of who you are.

I am a beginner, 100% and if you do not want to waste your time with me, then please don't.

If you want careful, detailed explanations of things, why are you on a forum (where you can get anything you want except careful, detailed explanations -- no one wants to type that much and end up just typing up the first 15 pages of a C textbook)? We can help with short, specific questions easily, because they have nice short answers; we can point you to things to read if you want things to read (see e.g. the book sticky on the top of the forum). We're not going to type up a chapter of a book into this little box just for you, though.

And don't worry -- the sarcasm is not to put you down, but point up the futility of the request (it's just as impossible to read way-overly-commented code as uncommented code). No one here is taking this personally, even me.

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