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And to the persom who gave me neg antipoints for my earlier posting, the one where I did not know what RoyalT was talking about, I was not trying to be aggressive, just wonder what he was talking about, I am not that much older than him anyways. Don't just give neg antipoints for nothing like that.
komal. Don't bitch about antipoints or people will just throw more your way. :)
OK, ok, let me make amends. Sorry RoyalT if you considered what I wrote in my first post kind of mean, I did not mean to be, I honestly did not know what you mean with your first post. OK? So people please stop giving neg points for this, I was not trying to bother him or anybody else. Just joking around.
lol it's arite.
-=Royal-T=-
Quote: A good friend will bail you out of jail, but your best friend will be sitting there right next to you saying "that was ****ing awesome!"
nice to see someone with the right attitude: it's what separates the true geeks (my term for the winners of society with all the knowledge, sorry if you don't like the term :) ) from the script kiddies. Thank God you didn't just go 'hey, is there program I can download which hacks a computer if you type in the owner's name and click a button?'..................;) you'll do great here
I think education is pretty important; I took computer science(as i'm sure everyone else has) it's a good start. I also read pretty much everything that i can get my hands on, including all the antionline stuff! Here's my list of what I'd suggest to learn.
1) OS(Win, *.nix)
2) Languages(C first, then Java, VB, CGI, then scripting languages)
3) Internet technology
Hope that helps.
Since I am only a year old than you RoyalT and only got into computers about two years ago, I can only pass along my words of encourgement and advise you to learn a programming language as soon as you can. Once you get past the first step, everything seems to get a lot easier.
Good Luck!
Jaguar291
Patience is the best advice I can offer right now RoyalT. It's easy for me to get frustrated sometimes about topics I don't know anything about, but if you keep hammering away, it will usually click with you. I like Elliente's list of things to learn as well.
1) OS's are the backbone of all this, so it's a good idea to learn one inside and out. Many people choose a 'NIX flavor for this, because so many systems on the internet are using some flavor of 'NIX as their OS. If you have the means, try to get a test system that you can play with, and start installing different OS's. The best way to learn is by doing. Just don't do on anything you can't afford to break.
2) Programming languages are a great way to understand the logic behind a lot of things. You'll find that many programs are merely helpful user interfaces for something that can be done manually. Even text editors are simply user interfaces for saving words to a file, instead of having to compile a script that takes in each line you type and save it to disk. Start with some simple languages like BASIC, or shell scripting, and move up from there. Look for things that are called HIGH-LEVEL languages. These are the ones that are the most human readable. LOW-LEVEL languages are the ones that are most computer readable. Assembly, for example is a low-level language that is about as close to machine language as a human can get without knowing binary better than their own language.
3) Network technology is how we're all connected, and it's an important thing to learn. It's fun to play with network hardware (hubs, switches, routers, etc). When you get good with one machine, it's time to branch out to many! :bigsmile:
Good luck!
Roswell -
As another newbie I read your post with great interest - it was very insightful. I hope you don't mind but I will be copying it to keep as a reference to refer back to in my own pursuit of knowledge. My experience began on the hardware side of computing but branched quickly to the software side when I started having OS problems early on. I've been learning by jumping in with both feet which is not the easiest thing to do. Thank you for the great outline.
RoyalT, welcome to the site and I admire your post and gave you some greenies for it. First off you are asking for and have found a bunch of what are called mentors. These are people that share and teach becuse you asked to learn. Mentors are good many of the post's I see are from well established good people here that wish to pass on what they know to one that has an open mind, you will go a long way because you asked the right way :)