RE: Programming language course and stuff 12-21-2012, 10:29 AM
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Actually, one of the questions you asked was to give you a schedule on what to learn. I probably wouldn't approach it like this at all. If you've got the core of Python down, I'd start learning the basics of either C or PHP now. Just change it up every so often. If you choose the C route I'd probably only spend about a month doing C just getting the basics nailed. Then upgrade to C++, because the general syntax carries through, it just get's a lot more complex. If you pick up PHP then yeah, picking up some kind of SQL is very much a plus.
Once you have the basics of SQL down you can start reading about SQLi, WAF and penetration testing etc. These are the kind of things I need to think about on a day to day basis, because I deal with websites quite a lot and how to prevent attacks against them. Which is one of the reasons I joined here!
So don't think of it as a "now I've learnt Python, what's next". On a day to day basis I might skip between 5 languages without even thinking about it and it used to be more than that when I was a full on dev. But that's kind of the stage you need to be aiming for.
Once you have the basics of SQL down you can start reading about SQLi, WAF and penetration testing etc. These are the kind of things I need to think about on a day to day basis, because I deal with websites quite a lot and how to prevent attacks against them. Which is one of the reasons I joined here!
So don't think of it as a "now I've learnt Python, what's next". On a day to day basis I might skip between 5 languages without even thinking about it and it used to be more than that when I was a full on dev. But that's kind of the stage you need to be aiming for.


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