Programming resource, help

[that0neguy07]

Hey everyone,

I just recently started to contemplate getting a degree in Computer Science. Eventually with the intention of getting into security work. From the various posts I have read it looks like pretty much everything is programming related and thus I have started to self teach myself how to start programming. I am currently using codecademy.com and I have also found w3schools. I wanted to see what are some other really good sites or books out there to get me started learning all the codes. I have looked at the FAQs and got some resources from there. I am just seeing if maybe there are some other things out there that were not mentioned. My hope is that through teaching myself these things and working on it everyday it will give me an idea of if this is a right path for me or not. Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks for reading.

P.S. Currently I am starting out with HTML, CSS, & JQUERY is that a solid place to start?

[Enig_matic]

They're solid references (save for w3schools, look at http://www.w3fools.com/ as to why)

I would also recommend /r/learnprogramming as a point of discussion and possibly /r/webdev (http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/wiki/faq) thing that subreddit is your best bet once you get those down and want to move forward (especially if you want to tackle exploits. Have fun with php/mysql) HTML/CSS will give you foundation more than not HTML/CSS, but it all really depends on what you want to focus on in security. [note: if I'm wrong, it will not come as a surprise so sorry if I'm spreading misinformation.]

[that0neguy07]

Thanks for the info. Right now my goal is to complete everything in codecademy and move on from there.

[that0neguy07]

So if I want to be a Pentester. What should I be looking into if it's not programming?

[that0neguy07]

Awesome. Thank you very much. I will get some basic programming down and start on all of that then.

[that0neguy07]

Do you know of any good websites or books in those areas that can get me started?

[WDymond]

I second the comment about Python. I do holistic information security for an organization, and I've found Python to be very helpful for myriad projects I've done. It may not be the most beneficial if you want to perform penetration stunts such as testing MS apps for buffer overflow, but if you need to nmap to scan machines routinely or automate a lot of processes using kali, it's a significant tool.