What can I hack first?

Lorgon Jortle · Post by **Lorgon Jortle** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:45 am

- By the looks of this question, you probably opened this thread thinking that I need to be told to go somewhere else, because we here at hacker.org are not crackers. But I urge you to continue reading this before you post that. Thank you so far.
- I have been interested in computers and computer science since I was very young. I would like to learn as much as I possibly can about computers in general. I seem to have the same thinking as all of you, where I want to know how things work, how to tinker with them, and how to make them better.
- My question is, what do you recommend I learn? I am not asking any of you to teach me everything you know about hacking (as much as I would love that). I am asking where you recommend I go to learn what needs to be learned.
- I am familiar with C++, and am starting Python, as instructed my many people on various Linux forums. What are your ideas?

Thanks for any help,
Lorgon Jortle

BerryTheWest · Post by **BerryTheWest** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:49 am

Perhaps discuss on several components what programming is offering and perhaps doing some open source projects will increase your reputation.

Lorgon Jortle · Post by **Lorgon Jortle** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:03 am

Ouch. I doubt I could be of any help, haha. I've only been teaching myself C++. Nothing visual yet. I've mostly just been making text based games with IO file stream for saving and reading map coordinates. I would love to get good enough at either Python of C++ to help with some open source projects(and I plan to stick around, so hopefully my rep will go up a bit

) Which do you suggest I aim my studies towards? C++ or Python?

Thanks for the previous quick reply,

Lorgon Jortle

ps- Am I the only one experiencing a lag in the message editor? I type something and it doesn't show up for a while, or it is mal-formatted until I highlight it... Everything works fine though.

PaRaDoX · Post by **PaRaDoX** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:58 am

BerryTheWest wrote:Perhaps discuss on several components what programming is offering and perhaps doing some open source projects will increase your reputation.

mmmm open source. good times

BerryTheWest · Post by **BerryTheWest** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:19 am

To do something visual and similar to C++... that will be C# and hopefully you have Windows to start with. If you decide to do C#, I can help you.

Lorgon Jortle · Post by **Lorgon Jortle** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:50 am

How visual is Python? I know in C++ it takes quite a bit of code for a simple window. Also, I wouldn't really mind C#, but I'm kind of trying to stay away from Windowz. I'd like to learn more about either Python or C++. I'm not sure which one is best for hacking though.

Thanks,

Lorgon Jortle

BerryTheWest · Post by **BerryTheWest** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:17 pm

Lorgon Jortle wrote:How visual is Python? I know in C++ it takes quite a bit of code for a simple window. Also, I wouldn't really mind C#, but I'm kind of trying to stay away from Windowz. I'd like to learn more about either Python or C++. I'm not sure which one is best for hacking though.

Thanks,

Lorgon Jortle

Well, if you're not doing Windows... C# is multiple platform now...

Mono supported C# on Linux and Mac OS.

plope0726 · Post by **plope0726** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:21 pm

You can get open source software to create GUI just like in Visual Studio. One such program I've seen is called Eclipse. I thinks its mainly for Java but you can get plugins for python, etc.

Lorgon Jortle · Post by **Lorgon Jortle** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:26 pm

BerryTheWest wrote:
Lorgon Jortle wrote:How visual is Python? I know in C++ it takes quite a bit of code for a simple window. Also, I wouldn't really mind C#, but I'm kind of trying to stay away from Windowz. I'd like to learn more about either Python or C++. I'm not sure which one is best for hacking though.

Thanks,

Lorgon Jortle
Well, if you're not doing Windows... C# is multiple platform now...

Mono supported C# on Linux and Mac OS.

So you really recommend C# I take it, haha. I'll look into that and see if it pleases me more than Python. Thanks!