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Coding itself is different than "hacker" coding. But for hacking unless you're getting into looking for zero days, reverse engineering, or something along those lines it's mostly basic scripting. Most of it will just be python, bash, or powershell. Pen testing is more about port scanning and looking for open vulnerabilities than actual coding. Like you'll definitely do scripting but you'll be doing more of things like: scanning, error handling, invalid input, using known vulnerabilities on any unpatched software, mismanaged permissions, packet capturing, and other things like that.

If you're really interested in that line of worker there's several websites with vm's set up specifically for you to try to do that. If you want to get into actual programming then I would select a type of project you're interested in and then a language based off of that. For example if you're into machine learning try learning python. If you want to do front end web development learn html, css, and jacascript.

Source is myself as I work in the field.
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