good hacker have to be a good programmer?

[nipundavid]

"to become a good hacker you have to become a good programmer"
i read this on a website, is this true?

[CodeX]

generally hacking is the application of programming and understanding so I'd go with yes.

[e-bit]

but its not just programming, you have to understand operating systems, networking, and how all those things work together, and know how to use programming to manipulate that

[nipundavid]

thanx for the replies but i m new in the buisiness. can you guys tell me which programming languages i should learn to become a hacker. i know c,c++,sql,html and one more thing, which part of these language i should concentrate.for eg in pointers inheritence etc

[alternateblackhat]

thanx for the replies but i m new in the buisiness. can you guys tell me which programming languages i should learn to become a hacker. i know c,c++,sql,html and one more thing, which part of these language i should concentrate.for eg in pointers inheritence etc

Before you ask what should you learn, you should ask yourself what do you want to do with the knowledge.

[malachi]

nipundavid: you really do need to learn to code, yes. But unfortunately, no, there are no suggestions on "what to focus on". The trouble is, if you're asking what to focus on and what's safe to ignore, you're not going to be a hacker. Because that's the whole point, really - not ignoring anything, finding things other people may have ignored, and exploiting the shit out of them...

If you want to be successful, you're going to have to love doing it. Start with Python, since it's probably the easiest of the languages powerful enough to do what you'll need (assuming we're talking about "internet hacking"). If you're more interested in systems hacking, you really have no other recourse than learning C, and getting very, very comfortable with it.

[0042]

I'm not good at programming, but I know how computers work and interact with eachother.

I agree with everyone else. Being a hacker is simmilar to being a videogamer IMO. The whole idea is to solve the puzzles presented to you. In videogames, hardcore gamers tend to pride themselves on solving puzzles in unusual ways. (often doing so in ways the programmers never thought of.)

Think outside the box. Look at it from a different angle than everyone else. Learn to think sideways. There is ALWAYS more than one way to solve a problem; despite what anyone else says.