No problem. I am doing it (badly) "... the hard way."
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:21 PM, James Mcphee <
jmcphe@gmail.com> wrote:
> sorry for not responding sooner, michael. everyone learns in their own
> way. if a course is not for you, I can at least point you at how I pick up
> new languages. what works for me is the old "scratch an itch" process.
> find something that you want to do, and do it with a language. start
> small, maybe checking your email or twitter. it's a matter of getting some
> inertia behind you.
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Please expand. How would you recommend I go about to learn this (not in a
>> formal setting)? I can not afford to take classes and because of a head
>> injury doubt I could complete it successfully anyways.
>>
>> In your list I notice you do not mention learning any programming
>> language. Why is that?
>>
>> What do you mean by "OS shell integration"? Is that saying I need to
>> learn BASH as opposed to Python?
>>
>> "string operations must mean BASH....
>>
>> when you say "regular expressions" is this a good resource here
>> <http://www.aboutlinux.info/2006/01/learn-how-to-use-regular-expressions.html>?
>> Would I use this with BASH or Python or both?
>>
>> I notice that in http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ there is a section
>> that covers using Python with websites so handling and forming automated
>> web requests is probably covered in more advanced Python tutorials.
>>
>> So to sum it up I think I need to learn Python and BASH. Is this correct?
>> I also need to learn XML, JSON (what do you mean when you say "from
>> xml.dom import minidom ; import json") and SQL
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>
>> For all the pen testing and hacker stuff I went through (7 some odd years
>> ago), here's what you'll want to know how to do, in approximate order of
>> priority:
>>
>> xml and json parsing (from xml.dom import minidom ; import json)
>> connecting to and using a database (learn enough SQL to be able to
>> navigate around one here too), learning sqlalchemy will be enough to land
>> you a job in the field
>> OS shell integration (import os)
>> string operations
>> regular expressions (import re)
>> handling and forming automated web requests
>>
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