Hey buddies guess what??
I’ve brought you some awesome links that I have for learning how to code, computer science posts, and also various things about hacking. :p
CODING / COMPUTER SCIENCE
www.udemy.com
The best free and paid classes on the web. This is my go to site for learning something new.
app.pluralsight.com
$40 a month but the courses are top tier. You might find a free trial from microsoft dev essentials…
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Free MIT courses with video lectures, notes, and resources!!!
https://www.codecademy.com/learn
Perhaps the most famous site for learning how to code, this is must have for any aspiring computer scientist, web dev, or programmer. A smooth UI, dozens of courses, APIs, and fun quizzes if you decide to cough up a bit of money. $19 is crazy dirt cheap compared to some $200 courses out there on the web.
https://thenewboston.com/
Dubbed by its creator as the social network for programmers, TNB is a hotbed of hundreds of video tutorials for programming and computer science, as well as other disciplines like cooking.
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/codingground.htm
Another crazy important site for anyone serious about programming. You can find online terminals, IDEs, and tutorials for almost every popular language out there, from oCaml to lisp
http://codecombat.com/
Geared towards children, this is a good introudction to programming thinking and helps a younger audience get into the problem solving mindset.
http://www.codewars.com/dashboard
For users with some coding experience, codewars offers hundreds of challenges in various languages and help them build up their skills. Perfect for intermediate to master programmers.
https://www.codingame.com/start
This site is a bit geared towards new coders, it’s still fun and helps a ton in developing confidence.
http://jonisalonen.com/
Random blog that discusses some concepts regarding computer science. Worth a read if you’re ever lost and wanna just reflect on something.
http://howtonetwork.net/
https://www.howtonetwork.com/
Both the old and new sites are still up and provide their services for learning IT skills.
http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/
RESOURCES FOR COMPILERS, DATABASES, FORUMS, and SO MUCH MORE TAKE A LOOK.
http://www.hloom.com/modern-resume-templates/
What good is a programmer if they can’t make a good resume to show off their skills? With these helpful templates you can impress your potential employer.
http://freecomputerbooks.com/
I haven’t used this so be cautious. Has a lot of ebooks.
http://i.imgur.com/i3jtrA0.jpg
Web development cheat sheet.
http://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=626170
Awesome intro to programming with links to projects.
http://www.elithecomputerguy.com/
Eli has a blog and also videos for various things.
http://www.net130.com/ccie/tech/Sybex%20-%20Cisco%20CCIE%20Book.pdf
CCIE book. Not sure if it’s open source. I’ll remove this link if requested.
https://www.codeschool.com/
pay money, learn to code. seems legit.
http://www.python-forum.org/
A forum for Python usrers! There are only a few sections but there are enough posts on here so if you haev a question, it might have already been asked.
http://www.dreamincode.net/
Another sweet forum that covers multiple topics.
http://forums.devshed.com/
A really popular forum! Lots of languages and users, dozens of topics.
http://www.codingforums.com/
Another large forum, perfect for any use.
http://www.programmingforums.org/
A freaking large factory of forums you will never find the same post twice.
http://www.gamedev.net/page/index.html
Lots of forums, jobs, and helpful resources all geared towards game development.
http://stackoverflow.com/
The most famous one imo. Be wary friend, don’t let your CS teacher find this in your browser history.
http://forum.codecall.net/
Resources, forums, tutorials, blow yourself out here.
https://openhatch.org/
Has some training missions and other stuff. Helps you find projects to work on.
https://codefights.com/
Put your skills to the test against AI or humans.
www.datacamp.com
Like big data? Well this site teaches you Python, the numpy library, and R.
https://www.edx.org/
Full of courses for anything.
http://www.exactas.org/modules/UpDownload/store_folder/1_-_COMPUTACION/Jonathan%20Bartlett%20-%20Programming%20From%20The%20Ground%20Up.pdf
handy book on progrmaming.
HACKING
http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/
This is one of the BEST websites to learn about security and you can follow tutorials by real hackers and members of the IT field. With a strong community full of experienced authors, you will either flourish by using proper grammar or be mocked for asking “how do i hack gmail??”
www.hackerhighschool.org/home.html
PERFECT FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS INTERESTED IN CYBERSECURITY BUT HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO START. I CANNOT STRESS HOW AWESOME THIS SITE IS.
allison.com
ANOTHER PERFECT SITE FOR LEARNING ANYTHING
http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/links-help-you-hacking-0162359/
Small collection of resources for educating yourself on internet security.
http://directory.umm.ac.id/Networking%20Manual/Networking%20For%20Dummies%207%20Ed%202004.pdf
A must read for anyone with a desire to get into IT
http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/
Crash course on Command line.
https://www.cybrary.it/
Great if you cannot afford pricy online classes. Instructors know what they are talking about and despite a few poor quality videos, you will be supplied with helpful resources and forums.
https://evilzone.org/
One of the better forums out there for learning. Delve into it at your own risk.
https://v3rmillion.net/
ROBLOX hacking, general exploits, or just normal discussions. Roblox helped put me on my path to coding and I love how every day, millions of kids are being taught the ability of coding thanks to its studio.
https://www.hackthissite.org/pages/index/index.php
Lessons, challenges, forums, and resources all bundled in a site to hone your pentest skills.
http://www.enigmagroup.org/
Like hackthissite, but with a different UI
https://www.hellboundhackers.org/
Read the above
https://pentest-tools.com/home
Free pentest tools. Don’t use it for anything wrong.
https://www.defcon.org/
Hehe..we are in defcon 4..
https://picoctf.com/learn
Capture the Flag learning site. Amazing imo.
http://overthewire.org/wargames/
Another war games site. You get various challenges that are fun to solve ^.^
http://hakipedia.com/index.php/Hakipedia
Wikipedia but for security.
http://smashthestack.org/
Wargames.
http://www.wablab.com/
Compete against IT pros. Git rekt code-bug
http://academy.ehacking.net/courses/computer-hacking-forensics-investigation/
Explore this site a bit.
https://www.ethicalhacker.net/features/book-reviews/the-basics-of-rootkits-leave-no-trace
The link kinda gives it away.
https://github.com/mrrrgn/simple-rootkit/blob/master/README.md
Fun little project.
http://www.fuzzysecurity.com/tutorials.html
Professional blog that has tutorials and highly detailed information.
https://www.corelan.be/index.php/2009/07/19/exploit-writing-tutorial-part-1-stack-based-overflows/
Ahh read the above please!
https://trailofbits.github.io/ctf/index.html
A CTF guide. Pretty well written and has slides. Awesome resources. What else can I say?
http://www.securitysift.com/windows-exploit-development-part-1-basics/
Another swell blog.
http://www.thegreycorner.com/2010/01/beginning-stack-based-buffer-overflow.html
Woa..another..awesome blog..there are too many to count!
http://www.flexhex.com/docs/howtos/hex-editing.phtml
Hey kid? Wanna learn how to hex edit like a b0ss?
https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-03/bh-us-03-willis-c/bh-us-03-willis.pdf
Nice little pdf for forensics.
www.greyhathacker.net
A blog that’s a bit dated but has useful information.
xeuhack.com
Dated but useful blog.
www.cybersecuritycourse.co
haven’t tried this yet but it has great reviews.
www.censys.io
Search engine for data scientists.
http://www.techexams.net/forums/off-topic/51719-best-security-websites.html
Best sites to learn from.
http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/ebooks/
Awww yiss ebooks
http://bookboon.com/en/it-programming-ebooks
Might run into errors downloading books.
http://ebook-dl.com/
Full books that are virus free.
That’s all for now! Special thanks to everyone who suggested I make this!
I work in a walk-in tutor lab at my university and one of the other tutors showed me this a couple years back and it has changed my life.
First, you make a table that looks like this.
Then, go ahead and add in some nice denominators of 2 in every entry in the table.
Then give yourself some nice square roots on the numerators.
Alright – now we’re going to fill it in. The only value you have to remember is that sin(0)=0. So we put 0 in the numerator for 0 in the sine column. Then we just count up as we move down.
Then we do the opposite in the cosine column.
Then we simplify!
And voila – a beautiful unit circle table.
The thing about programming is that it may be 3am, but you can’t help but think it won’t take all that long to add another quick feature…
Yep! And now it’s 5:40am and I’m still sitting here.
Coding is occasionally bad for your health.
(via fyeahcode)
“We are assuming here that the user is competent. In reality this is always false. Users are very dumb and will do weird things.”
Intro to Computer Programming Professor (via mathprofessorquotes)
Book of the week: Warrior of the Light by Paulo Coelho
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If you’re up really late studying for finals, try swapping your contact solution with coffee for a quick pick-me-up.
The first guy who heard a parrot talk was probably not ok for several days.
one thing I want to say today relates to my current job. (As you guys know, I’ve left off working in science labs to work an office job in sci comm. My role is kind of … nebulous and involves a lot of “oh, Elodie can help you with that, she does weird stuff. Train Elodie on that.”)
Because it’s an office job, the mentality is for everyone to present their workflows as incredibly difficult and skilled, requiring a lot of training and experience to do properly. Which is fair enough! These skills are difficult!
“Elodie, today we are going to train you to use… A HIGHLY COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT WEBSITE INTERFACE. You will need to take a lot of notes and pay careful attention, because it is extremely advanced. ARE YOU READY”
“… This is Wordpress.” “…No it isn’t! it says something different at the top. And it’s very complicated, it’s not something you can just know already.” “Nah son, don’t worry, it’s Wordpress. I mean, God knows I don’t blog much, but I can manage me a bit of Wordpress, it’s cool.”
“No. You can’t. Don’t worry, it’s very difficult. Now sit still and be trained on how to upload a photo to Wordpress.”
“All right.”
—-
“Elodie, do you think that you can MANAGE SOCIAL MEDIA? It is INCREDIBLY HARD and may involve THE HASHTAGS”
“… I think I’ll manage.”
—-
“Elodie, can you put a HYPERLINK in a thing? Think about it before you answer.”
“Is it like a BBCode kind of thing, with the boxy bracket things, or do you want it in HTML, with like angley bracket things?”
“It is a button that you press that says HYPERLINK.”
“I can do this thing for you.”
—-
“Elodie, can you write a punchy summary that will make people want to click on a special link that says “read more” to read all of the text?“
“Probably?”
—-
“Elodie, this is how to use TAGS on CONTENT. TAGS on CONTENT are important because - because of THINGS. Things that are too arcane and mysterious for anyone below the level of Manager to know.”
“Cool, I can tag stuff for you.”
—-
“Elodie, this is obviously a ridiculous question, but can you edit videos?”
“Not very well, and only if you want to make it look like there is sexual tension between characters from different forms of visual media, or perhaps to make a trailer for a fanfiction? Which is not necessarily a good use of my time and I’m not sure why I felt it was so cool to do to begin with…”
“What?”
“Actually, upon further reflection: no. No. Nope. I can’t edit videos. They’re completely beyond me. Not in my wheelhouse. Hate videos. Hate them. No innate skill whatsoever.”
“That’s what we thought”
—-
“Elodie?! You can use PHOTOSHOP?!”
“Yeah, I mean, I usually just use Pixlr. It’s free, it’s online, it’s powerful, you don’t have to download anything…”
“but you are not a GRAPHIC DESIGNER!!” “Er… no.”
“Next you’ll be telling us you can MAKE AN ANIMATED PICTURE.”
“I mean, I haven’t really done a lot of it since Livejournal, and they weren’t that good anyway, but yeah… I can do you reaction images.”
“THAT IS WITCHCRAFT”
“Yes. Definitely.”
—-
What I’m trying to say is: a lot of people talk a lot of crap about what we Millenials do on the Internet, because there is NO CAPITALISTIC VALUE in the screwing around we do with our friends. “Ughh why are you ALWAYS on the computer?” our parents whined.
“How did you make the text go all slanty like that?” our bosses wonder.
We have decades of experience in Photoshop. We know how to communicate; we can make people across the planet care about our problems. We know how to edit media to make two characters look like they’re having the sexual tensions. We can make people read our posts, follow us, share our content. We run and manage our own websites - and make them pretty. We moderate conversations, enforce commenting policies, manage compromises, lead battles, encourage peace, defend ourselves from attack, inspire others, and foster incredible levels of communication.
We produce our art. We advertise our art. We engage with others through our art. We accept constructive criticism and dismiss destructive trolling of our art. We improve our art. Our art gets better.
We narrate our stories.
All by ourselves. Our pretty blog backgrounds, custom-edited themes, tasteful graphics, punchy content, clever gifs, our snappy putdowns and smart-ass text posts, even our familiarity with fonts and composition - all of these skills we’ve casually accumulated for fun/approval are MINDBLOWING LEVELS OF COMPETENCE IN THE WORKFORCE.
When these skills are sold to you - when they’re packaged and marketed, and when you pay to consume them and have the Elders rate you on them - they are incredibly valuable. They are Media and Communications degrees. They are marketing internships. They are leadership workshops. They are graphics design modules. They are web design courses. They are programming courses. We are good at this shit; we have it nailed down.
You can’t put “fandom” or “blogging” on your CV, but you deserve to. You should get this credit. You should claim this power and authority.
Claim these skills. They are valuable. They are important.
Everything you have ever done is a part of your powerful makings.
(Knowing my professor will read the comment) //I don’t know how this works, or why, but it does, and I think that counts for something
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Full-time Computer Science student, reader, and gamer with a comics addiction.
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