How to become a hacker.

I think hacking and programming are almost two separate ways. Nowadays becoming a hacker is very hard because most of the major softwares reached to their maturity and have covered most of their vulnerabilities in comparison to those days that it was very easy to hack them with a wide variety of available exploit tools.


So in my opinion, be a good boy and plan to be a great developer rather than planning to become a good hacker! ;)

Regardless of what everyone else says, I still follow the original definition of "Hacker" which is a programmer who builds things fast and breaks things. The entire Facebook culture is based around hacking and FBI don't have them under surveillance. So hacker == programmer who builds things fast, getting back to your question, the only way to become a good programmer is to read a lot and practice a lot more. A good understanding of mathematics is crucial although it depends how much maths would your work involve, also thorough understanding of algorithms and a tenacity to get to the bottom of things to understand how they actually work, would really help in your quest. Knowing a framework or a language is secondary, having a critical thinking and logical ability to solve problems is primary. If you can think in simple terms and visualise a solution even before it exists, i think you would have a fair chance of being a good programmer (a.k.a hacker). Programming competitions like Facebook Hacker Cup, Google Code Jam, TopCoder SRMs are awesome platforms to pit your programming wits against the best in the world and learn a lot even if you rank the lowest. If you can take those hits and keep moving forward no matter what, you can be a good programmer.

Cheers...

First of all read different articles on hacking and do not use any software which is marked as hacking software because all these tools are fake.
To be a good programmer you must clear your basic concept. If you are learning higher level languages like C++, C# or Java which are supporting object oriented programming then you must focus on abstraction, polymorphism, inheritance, encapsulation and composition.

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