Current Events > How do you learn hacker coding stuff?

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Lol
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Ive always wondered this myself. In college, I purposely took a computer science minor in the hopes of learning code on the side while getting my Biochem degree. I can tell you with a computer science ingredient in my resume, I dont know a lick of how to create a simple mobile video game, or any sort of coding that enters a network (hacking). These are street things that are taught in very close knit groups.
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Ive dabbled with coding a few times in the past because hacking always seemed really cool, but Ive recently regained interest in it because I learned that theres a job called penetration tester where companies literally pay you to hack them and find flaws in their security. It seems like it would be a lot of fun. All I know is Codeacademy html though lol
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You dont need a CS degree to hack. You need to know some coding to make scripts but the rest isnt really theoretically complex. Theres plenty of online lab resources to help you learn. Theyll have you download programs to run virtual machines where you can play around with different attacks. KaliVM and SEEDLab are good VMs that come with a lot of hacking resources included.
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cool
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make a gui interface using visual basic
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zinezinzadan posted...

I dont know a lick of how to create a simple mobile video game, or any sort of coding that enters a network (hacking). These are street things that are taught in very close knit groups.

Hacking yes, but you can easily teach yourself programming games (desktop or mobile) if you know the basics of coding. I'd recommend looking into MonoGame, it's based off a very common language (C#, I believe there's options to use a couple of others if you prefer), completely free, and widely used, with good platform support (all three major desktop OSes, both major mobile OSes (not sure if it supports Windows Phone), and all current consoles plus Vita). C-based language is a huge advantage; the C family has survived decades, whereas fad languages like Python come and go.

I'm trying to learn it myself, although getting used to C-based languages is quite a change for me (I'm used to Pascal, which I think it's safe to say has "gone" at this point).
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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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I guess Ill start by learning Python. Thanks

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