At the time of ironic.demise's second post, the thread was at the top of the page. Programming Talk is not the Absolute Beginners Section and it takes a few days for a new post to stop getting new views. Besides, if you're going to bump something, you should at least add some new information -- "this is what I found out so far", "here's the code I'm working on -- can anybody point out my mistake", even "These are the search terms I Googled; what else should I look for?" Making a new post just to comment on the lack of replies is simply counterproductive from a discussion point of view.
@OP, not mad at you
You say you're reading through the source code of a C program, but you don't know C? Well... you can't really do that. I mean, you can, but you can't expect to learn much. It might work with Python or Lua, but for anything non-trivial in C I think you really need to know the language first.
You don't mention whether you already know any other programming languages; if you do, learning C will be much easier. If you're new to programming entirely... maybe you'd be better off working on some other project for a while.
Do you have to use C? I mean, if you already understood exactly what your program has to do, could you write it in another language or do you need to modify the existing program?
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