Re:Where does a wannabe hacker begin?
by pauek on Saturday March 29, 2008 @03:25PM
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If you want to get a taste of the whole thing:
1. Install Ubuntu.
2. Start using emacs (maybe with "Learning Emacs", O'Reilly, as mechanical_fish suggests).
3. Learn some Python (maybe with "Learning Python", O'Reilly too).
4. Use webpy (http://webpy.org) to develop a simple web application.
5. Learn how to program SQLite (and thus basic SQL) using Python and make your web application use a database.
6. Make your application public (http://vpslink.com might be enough, $7.95/month).
The 4th and 5th are "minimalistic" (for a web framework and a DB engine), least "complication", because the goal should be (I think) completing a simple project in a few months. From this you might get a glimpse of "the forest", or "connect the dots" (of web programming).
After that, if you want more, you can now go learn all of what others have very appropriately suggested: SICP, some system administration, PostgreSQL, Ruby (+ on Rails), git (or Bazaar), Data Structures, Algorithms, Test Driven Development, PHP, etc.
1. Install Ubuntu.
2. Start using emacs (maybe with "Learning Emacs", O'Reilly, as mechanical_fish suggests).
3. Learn some Python (maybe with "Learning Python", O'Reilly too).
4. Use webpy (http://webpy.org) to develop a simple web application.
5. Learn how to program SQLite (and thus basic SQL) using Python and make your web application use a database.
6. Make your application public (http://vpslink.com might be enough, $7.95/month).
The 4th and 5th are "minimalistic" (for a web framework and a DB engine), least "complication", because the goal should be (I think) completing a simple project in a few months. From this you might get a glimpse of "the forest", or "connect the dots" (of web programming).
After that, if you want more, you can now go learn all of what others have very appropriately suggested: SICP, some system administration, PostgreSQL, Ruby (+ on Rails), git (or Bazaar), Data Structures, Algorithms, Test Driven Development, PHP, etc.