where did you start? like when i am asked "you just went out one day and said im gonna do a backflip?". i want to know how to be a computer wizard pretty much. any rescources i should be aware of? perhaps you could point me in the right direction.
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Anonymous2013-03-27 16:07
inb4 go back to /g/
inb4 le SICP
inb4 LLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
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Anonymous2013-03-27 16:08
vimtutor
learn how to use a good editor before you start programming
Started with HTML back in 6th grade for Xanga and became good at it and ended up making some frames that would allow me to browse other sites in my xanga page to bypass the schools proxy.
also a small amount of Javascript
9th grade: Java, BASIC
Freshman college: sepples
soft moor: PHP, perl, batch
junior: CLISP, ASP.net, Ada, SQL
señor: SQL satori achieved along with various dialects
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Anonymous2013-03-27 17:09
>>8
we all know you didn't "learn" those.
you merely learned one or two things, fucking jew /g/tfo
>>10
pretty much this, I know enough to do what I need to do in those languages with C++, CLISP, ASP.NET, Java, and SQL being the ones I'm actually proficient with
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Anonymous2013-03-27 17:30
>>11
stop defending your abnormally small attention spam, okay /g/uy?
When there is a significant difference between the parent's and child's sense of the amount of attention needed, the child is often described as seeking excessive or inappropriate attention, particularly if the child is whiny, clingy, silly, or provocative. Children generally seek so-called inappropriate attention when they feel unable to manage their emotions or behavior. Needing extra help is usually a sign that a child is not functioning at his or her best level. We call this regression.
Some children engage in so-called "negative attention-seeking behavior," which involves an effort to provoke a response that they know will be negative. Such behavior should always perplex parents, and cause them to examine the behavior more deeply, because negative attention never feels good to a child - after all, the attention comes with quite a price. Disapproving, irritated, reproachful attention does not fill a child with good feeling any more than such attention feels welcomed by an adult! There needs to be quite a "pay-off" to induce a child to actually seek out such negativity. One possibility is that child has been over-indulged and therefore has not developed age appropriate skills, autonomy, and independence.
>>16
Why do you think >>5 is grandpa, and why do you think >>5 needs to sleep?
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Anonymous2013-03-28 11:07
>>8
frames, say like an iframe (I assume you didn't implement a different frame of reference in your browser and did some arcane physical magic) will not bypass the school proxy, because the browser still needs to fetch those pages.
I think you maybe ran a proxy server on your home computer, but then the frames thing seemed illogical.
>>18
when I say frame I mean I was in 6th grade trying random shit and put a URL in a src tag somewhere and magic occured that made any url I placed in that src tag load inside of the div it was placed and not get filtered
>>18,19
I did the same thing on a Mac PC. I used iframes to bypass parental controls. The parental controls on Safari need an administrator account to approve bookmarks for every site. All other sites are blocked. It doesn't prevent information from unbookmarked sites from being transmitted though, so an HTML file with an google iframe allowed me to go almost anywhere.
Eventually my mom figured out what I was doing, and deleted TextEdit. And that's how I learned about Terminal and nano...
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Anonymous2013-03-28 14:56
>>24 I used iframes to bypass parental controls. The parental controls on Safari need an administrator account to approve bookmarks for every site. All other sites are blocked.
Rule #251 of parenting: if your child is smart enough to bypass the parental controls, give up. It's a lost cause. The best you can do at this point is teach them about the dangers they may encounter on the other side and hope they don't fuck up.
Rule #252 of parenting: if you are a religious nut, disregard previous rule and make sure your little innocent infant never sets eye on a nude breast. Keep the computer under lock and key if necessary. Don't spare the rod.
I started back in middle school before I wanted to be a wizard. The school I went too had a magnet program for engineers and one of my teachers wanted to teach programming, so we learned pascal and HTML. It wasn't until a few years later that I wanted to become a wizard. First things first, install linux. Not ubuntu. Try CentOS, Slackware, or Debian since they require configuring to make it work 100%. Thats just to help teach you to solve problems on your own. Learn how to look into the system and figure it out yourself. Pick up a scripting language. I learned Perl and python. (o'reilly books) Low level languages as well, C/C++ is defacto (http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-Special/dp/0201700735). I'd pick up a good java programming book as well. Java sucks BUT it will teach you object oriented programming must easier then any C++ book will. Thought OOP isn't necessary, it is a pretty cool feature.
And research what kind of wizard you want to be. Do you want to be a cracker, crypto, maybe develop for some projects. There is a shit load of things you can do. Just make the initiative to dive deeper. Go to wikipedia and go to a programming page and just look at related pages and links to get some ideas. And learn. Learn everything you can. And learn to enjoy learning.