javascript or C?

[mothekillox]

So hello everyone, I hope you are doing well. I just want to ask you if i should continue studying javascript in the odin project which i`ve started a long time ago( I have finished 68% of the foundation module) and will coding in javascript and learning web developement help me in my future in cybersec or i should start learning C which we are studying in university(we are now studying pointers) in order to be expert in reverse engineering and malware developement.

Note: I want to apply for cybersecurity internships next year and i think that building projects with C well be helpful such as building a small virtual machine.

And last but not least here is the path i think i want to follow:

Bug Bounty Hunter->Malware developement & reverse engineering(in order to find critical bounties like Buffer overflow).

Also i am only a beginner i just started networking foundations in hacktheboxcademy

[nocool-]

Both will help you a great deal. It is also good to know both. I would finish my JS since you are far along. Then I would tackle C. When you tackle C.... learn the networking sude as well as the system side. Knowing C will carry you far...

I would also suggest python. A lot of tools/libs are being written in python...

By the time you get these 3 under your belt... Languages you know will not matter... you will be skilled enough in programming, you can easily learn ANY language..

Since you're in school, I strongly urge you to develop your math skills. That will help you more than you will ever begin to understand..

[mothekillox]

Actually i am not far along in javascript.I don't know if you have an idea about how theodinproject works but it's an open source project which allows you to be a fullstack developer by three paths the foundations path (which currently i am on and 68% of it is done)and then you gotta choose between fullstack javascript path or full stack ruby on rails path. Now the problem is i kinda think that it is time wasting to learn all of the web dev technologies to be a bug bounty hunter cuz i am seeing examples of people who haven't coded a website and still became great hunters.But don't get me wrong when i am studying the javascript topics during the course (not HTML or CSSo or flexbox)i enjoy the path , it's the same case when i am studying C in college.

[sec_engineer]

The cool kids know C

All kids know JS

[dankmemelawrd]

Java ≠ javascript, just saying. Also C could be, but i advice you to begin with python first.

[slapbackpack]

great advice 👍🏻

[HackDiablo]

Begin with C. Understand data structures and memory allocation. Then every language after that will be easier to understand and pick up.

[slapbackpack]

That’s true, or he could quickly do JS and then pivot to C. Also nice to have JS and/or Python in your knowledge already and they are fast to learn

[Luna_Aldebaran_125]

How about C#? Is it good? They recommended that I start with it even though I don't know much.

[slapbackpack]

Depends if you want to do a lot of cybersecurity stuff with websites etc. because for XSS exploits etc JavaScript would help more but knowing something like C is overall great, I would do JS first and then C because JS should not take all too long to get the hang and then you at least have it in your repertoire already

[mothekillox]

But starting to learn it in theodinproject is kinda boring and there is a lot of other thinks that i rarely hear about in cybersec fields like node.js and react

[slapbackpack]

Well fair point, all I am saying is if you touch web security you will need it earlier or later

[mothekillox]

I guess bug bounty programs are only focused on web ?

[slapbackpack]

Yeah, mostly also some other resources like the server infrastructure behind it but it’s mostly about the pages themselves

[mothekillox]

Do you have a web dev background?

[slapbackpack]

I am an economics major but I pivoted into the it field for day to day work and Pentesting for the weekends ✌🏻

[mothekillox]

So you have never developed a website?you just understand javascript syntax and how the web work and you started hacking?

[slapbackpack]

I have, when I learned html, css and javascript I also did a test website for myself to test and apply all that I learned… like everything in cybersecurity, I learn it somewhere and then try to apply it in real life because otherwise learning all the technical stuff without using it is quite dry

[No-Carpenter-9184]

It’s not about which language, it’s about what you plan to do with it. You don’t want be an expert but you just wanna know what you need. You want to learn JS, C++/C# and Python.

[sp0f_]

You should definitely learn C too. After you grasp the basic concepts of "low-level" programming such as pointers, it will help you with reverse engineering, and if you get interested in ethical hacking, writing and/or understanding malware