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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Where would you start? (question for the programmer / hacker) Post 302339127 by ilikecows on Wednesday 29th of July 2009 08:30:06 PM

07-29-2009

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My recommend starting point is to ask yourself why you want to be an "awesome hacker". If you do a little googling you will find (its commonly accepted anyway) it takes 10000 hours to become an expert in anything. I'm not trying to intimidate you or anything I'm just trying to emphasize that becoming an "awesome hacker" won't happen overnight, or even in a month. If you don't love computers then I would recommend putting your time an energy into something else. The 10000 hours has a catch 22. They have to be using and/or deliberately learning the skill you are trying to master. I think the best starting points for you would be reading "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor your Wetware". After that I would learn procedural programming in any language (not assembly) alongside Comptia A+ certification exam objectives. I would recommend going to college and getting a job in the IT industry as your next steps after that.

To motivate you a bit look up the following people and read about how they got where they did:

Linus Torvalds
Bruce Schneier
Larry Wall

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