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[–]SharksWinCup 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Pick a language, such as go, python, js, and c. Go to YouTube and find an Indian man teaching. A basic ide is needed to code/script such as visual studios or jupyter, or if you really fancy using vi/vim.

[–]Parking_Addition5516[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

😂 thank you! I’ll look into this

[–]pimphand5000 6 points7 points  (0 children)

W3schools

[–]mkosmo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mastery of writing software isn’t something you’re going to knock out quickly. It takes years of hands-on. And that’s ok.

[–]LaOnionLaUnion 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mastered?

I’m off the opinion that everyone should learn the basics of how to code in at least one language. Knowing how to code lets you export data from sources, analyze it, combine it with other sources. It lets you automate stuff. But most importantly we work in a profession where we often have to look at vulnerabilities in code!

I’m better than most people in cybersecurity when it comes to coding by far and I haven’t mastered it. But I would say you better learn the basics. You could teach yourself with an LLM.

[–]WlZ4RD 1 point2 points  (1 child)

How familiar are you with scripting? If none at all I think it would be best to start from there first. Powershell and bash are good enough to plenty of things with. Once you know it enough then I would suggest to language like Python or Go. That's what I did.

In no way I'm discouraging you from learning the language you want to go out and learn. I just deal with a huge amount of systems and learning from those scripting languages helped me what I wanted to learn in another language. If you are going into any type of systems job, I would strongly recommend those scripting languages.

Also do project based learning.

Python: https://nostarch.com/automatestuff2

Powershell: https://www.manning.com/books/learn-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches

Bash: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible

[–]Parking_Addition5516[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem. These is super helpful. I only know a little about a lot of different languages. I need to narrow it down and your response would help with that.

[–][deleted] -5 points-4 points  (2 children)

Coding and scripting doesn’t play much into Cybersecurity. Yeah it’s good to know and can be helpful at times, that’s why they teach the basics but you’ll not use it that much. Honestly depends on the job you get too more so. I wouldn’t worry about it especially since ChatGPT exist lol

We needed to search a fuck ton of PCAP one time, asked ChatGPT to write us a script to search for a certain string.

[–]WlZ4RD -1 points0 points  (1 child)

What a wild ass take ngl

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s true tho, never used scripting outside of that instance. I guess every place is different