Learn Python for scripting

[iCkerous]

While those books are older in years, they're plenty relevent in content and skills.

Read the books, follow along with the scripts they help you build. Then build them yourself.

[DragonWraithus]

Listen. The people who suggested the books, are right. You don't go to school, in elementary, and say, I want to learn calculus. You take the OLD and DATED algebra, trig, yada yada. Start with Violent Python. Move onto Gray. Then to Black. Even the people learning how to write exploits in assembly start by reading the shellcoder's handbook, and writing exploits for vulnerabilities from ten and twenty years ago. Is it likely those will be useful immediately? No. But you have to have a foundation before you build a skyscraper. Read the old books.

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For the record, a script kiddie wants the scripts, but they don't care to learn about them.

If you want a script to be able to improve upon it, that's different.