Hi, I'm Tom 06-04-2014, 03:09 PM
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Hi everyone,
So a couple of months ago, after having had an interest in computers for a long time, I finally decided to try to learn to program. Seeing as I found the ability to create mobile apps very cool, I started with Java.
Unfortunately the past few months I've also been very busy with finishing up stuff for my bachelor's degree (in psychology) so I haven't had a lot of free time. However I'm almost done with that so I'm hoping that in the upcoming (temporary) loads of free time things will progress a lot faster.
I'm currently almost done with following the free course on programming that's provided on youtube (search: cs106) by stanford university (which by the way is an awesome course with an awesome instructor). Next up is probably a MOOC I found on creating android apps.
The reason I'm signing up to this forum is that it will hopefully help motivate in self-studying so I can increase my programming knowledge in a rapid pace over the summer. Why hacking? Well I've always had a bit of a fascination with hacking. I did various innocent small time script kiddie hacking in the past (cheat engine, rats, bots, DDOS, etc). I have quite a lot of knowledge on poker strategy, so if I could make a poker bot in the future that would be very cool, however beyond that my interests in hacking is mostly out of curiosity. I think most hackers have a cool mind set , and most of the them are primarily self taught. That's probably the main reason I'm signing up.
Anyhow sorry for the long post! And hope to see you around!
-Tom
So a couple of months ago, after having had an interest in computers for a long time, I finally decided to try to learn to program. Seeing as I found the ability to create mobile apps very cool, I started with Java.
Unfortunately the past few months I've also been very busy with finishing up stuff for my bachelor's degree (in psychology) so I haven't had a lot of free time. However I'm almost done with that so I'm hoping that in the upcoming (temporary) loads of free time things will progress a lot faster.
I'm currently almost done with following the free course on programming that's provided on youtube (search: cs106) by stanford university (which by the way is an awesome course with an awesome instructor). Next up is probably a MOOC I found on creating android apps.
The reason I'm signing up to this forum is that it will hopefully help motivate in self-studying so I can increase my programming knowledge in a rapid pace over the summer. Why hacking? Well I've always had a bit of a fascination with hacking. I did various innocent small time script kiddie hacking in the past (cheat engine, rats, bots, DDOS, etc). I have quite a lot of knowledge on poker strategy, so if I could make a poker bot in the future that would be very cool, however beyond that my interests in hacking is mostly out of curiosity. I think most hackers have a cool mind set , and most of the them are primarily self taught. That's probably the main reason I'm signing up.
Anyhow sorry for the long post! And hope to see you around!
-Tom
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