A guide for absolute noobs and beginners (active learners are also welcomed)

GDB HackerOne
4 min readJun 27, 2020

[Note:Answer for what should i leran first as a beginner or noob is given at the last part]

The purpose of writing this post is to help you guys overcome the beginner chaos that you experience now. This post is for every everyone Wheather You wish to be a software devoloper, malware coder, pentester or even a black hat hacker (just kidding be an ethical one)

Lets get to the fun part Most of you want to become a hacker just because you have seen a "hacking filim" recently, Some of you want to impress your friends, Some wants to hurt or blackmail others and there are others who are actually serious and really want to learn hacking for doing good.

So first i would like to discuss the common problems faced by "MOST" of you guys:

1)You are always so confused at what to learn.

2)You somehow get free or even paid courses from udemy or download pdf’s , hope to watch and learn them but eventualy you will forget it or might feel bored.

3)You are always thinking and asking everyone how to hack fb, insta, netflix …

4)You try to bookmark and copy paste everthing you find on google.

5)You have no patience and no intrest in googling.

6)You like to be a script kiddie.

7)You try to learn different programming languages at the same time.

8)You write down many things and later realise that you are in a big mess.

9)You take screenshots and forget about it.

10)You try to play games even though you have a lot to learn.

So now you might be thinking "yep! These are my problems Could you please help me overcome this mess?" The answer is YES.

Now let’s talk about the solutions for each the problems:

1)Yes, Beginners are always confused.This is not a serious problem.If you are confused and dont know where to start google is your 1st friend along with wikipedia and other open source stuffs.What i recommend is that you should always have a deep knowledge of atleast one function of an ethical hacker; for eg: pentesting, reverse engineering are some of the functions of an ethical hacker.

2)Only download courses if you are willing to learn it. Dont download PDF’s unless you are sure to read them. If you feel bored at any time learn something new , if you still feel bored then this might not be the place for you.

3)Yes i agree, we all love to hack social meadia accounts or atleast know how its done. In my opnion this is something that you should learn from you own curiosity once you finished all basic understanding. But know this phishing or bruteforcing an instagram or a facebook account doesn’t get you a job unless you did it an awesome way!

4)Bookmarking is a good thing to do, but dont get carried away with it. Even if you have so many bookmarks check them over a certain period of time and dispose of things you no longer need.

5)Patience...Patience...Patience... It is a key requirement in this field.But if you have money in your pocket You don’t need to maintain Patience.

6)All hackers emerged as script kiddies (except those with superbrains).There is no shame in that, but advancing as a script kiddie is certainly not a function of an ethical hacker.

7)Learning upto 2 to 3 programming languages at the same time is Ok, but 5 to 6 languages means that you are wasting your time. As beginners go with c/c++ or python (c is hard to lean than python but c is the mother of all languages both are very important) if you think you have more capasity go learn html and css along with it.

8)Writing things down can boost our learning skill. That doesn’t mean to write everything down!

9)Taking screenshots can boost you productivity.If you found something useful and you have no time at the moment screenshot is the best idea,but do refer it later.

10)Last thing, if you are serious about Learning these stuffs You should never ever be addicted i repeat "addicted" to playing games or watching movies ... As they will make you feel bored whenever you watch some courses or while reading PDF’s or might even destroy your curiosity to learn.

Now the answer for what should i learn first:

(my opinionsor views)

--- learn how to google (a useful search engine, others are "duckduckgo,bing,yahoo...")

--- Learn kali linux or any other linux and windows (they are called operating systems)

--- Learn about internet and how it works.

--- Learn about websites and how it works.

--- Learn programming languages like C/C++ or python.

--- Learn to work with Command-line (a black screen in windows) and linux terminal (a black screen in linux and mac).

--- Learn what an ethical hacker should know, like cyber attacks, types of malware... stuffs like that

--- We will take care the rest of them later.

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