python

[James Mcphee]

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 at 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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