Rizaar wrote:I appreciate the response!
I wasn't looking to be taught through this thread, just looking for a road map if you will. I really appreciate your response and will get to work on learning about linux first!
Once again thank you for the timely response and the friendliness of the post.
Rizaar
Ahhh, I remember when I was first getting started... It takes a long time to learn my friend, I was 12 years old when I started and I am 19 now. I look at the people here and I surely can make myself look like a dumbass a lot haha.
Basically how I started was messing with batch files. Learn how to make batch files and get used to the commands. This will get you more geared towards how things work, as most of these are pretty basic.
For instance, try this out:
Open up notepad (If you are running windows, and you probably are since you are new to the hacking world) type in the following:
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start https://www.google.com/
After typing the above, save it with the .bat (batch file) extension as google.bat to your desktop.
Go to your desktop and open the file up and it should launch your browser and take you directly to google
Now, there are several other commands which are fun such as:
(for giggles use this command: shutdown -s -t 001 -c "lol" and save it to a friend desktop. Right click the file on the desktop and change the icon to his default browsers icon; delete the link to his browser on his desktop and name your batch file whatever his browser was: For instance if he uses firefox, right click it > rename > "Firefox". Once opened it will run your command and shutdown the system immediately)
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shutdown -s -t 100 -c "System Maintenance"
The above will shut down the machine in 100 seconds and will give the message in the quotes which is: System Maintenance
Note that a shutdown may be reversed by the following command:
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shutdown /a
or
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shutdown -a
you can open up your command prompt by going to run and typing in cmd.exe, or alternatively just hit your start button and search for cmd and open it.
Once this is open, you will get access to your command prompt, which should look like a empty black box, you can type in "help" or maybe "?" and possibly "help ?" and it should give a large list of commands. Once you get the large list of commands, you can view more information on a desired command by typing either "?" or "help" at the end of your chosen command; I am not sure which one it is though, as I have not been on windows in years.
Basically, if you run "help" and get a list and you see the command "shutdown" you don't know the usage of this command, so to view this, you would type: "shutdown help" or maybe "shutdown ?" this will give you the basic usage of this command, and details of what it does.
This is almost similar with Linux Ubuntu in a terminal, as you run into some CLI (command line interface) programs and this is the same way you learn their usage and capabilities. (For Linux you would find the tool you want help with and add --help to the end or man to the beginning for the usage. Man is short for Manuel which tends to be the better option for in depth information on the usage; opposed to --help which will give a quick brief over view of how the usage should be. For instance in Linux if you wanted to know information on the shutdown command you would use: shutdown --help or man shutdown)
With these commands, you can program these to run on a batch file, so you can have fun learning new stuff and creating your own files, etc... (Please be careful as you do this, because you can mess things up by running dumb commands, but it would be a bit hard to, just a warning)
After that, I suggest something fairly easy such as C+, C++, or HTML (HTML is the easiest in my opinion)
The great thing about HTML is it is easy to learn using notepad again, you can save your files as a .html extension and see the output of your code.
If you want to learn more on HTML, I suggest this site: w3schools.com <--- they are amazing and go into lots of detail and the depths of things, you can also participate in little side interactions while learning to give an idea on how it works. All for free and no registration needed.
I hope this will encourage you to stick around and hang out in the hackers world!
