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How To Become A Hacker

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As editor of the Jargon File and author of a few other well-known documents of similar nature, I often get email requests from enthusiastic network newbies asking (in effect) "how can I learn to be a wizardly hacker?". Back in 1996 I noticed that there didn't seem to be any other FAQs or web documents that addressed this vital question, so I started this one. A lot of hackers now consider it definitive, and I suppose that means it is. Still, I don't claim to be the exclusive authority on this topic; if you don't like what you read here, write your own. If you are reading a snapshot of this document offline, the current version lives at http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html. Note: there is a list of Frequently Asked Questions at the end of this document. Please read these—twice—before mailing me any questions about this document. Numerous translations of this document are available: Arabic Belorussian Bulgarian Chinese, Czech. Danish Dutch Estonian French German, Greek Hungarian,

How To Become A Hacker How To Become A Hacker Eric Steven Raymond Thyrsus Enterprises < esr@thyrsus.com > Copyright © 2001 Eric S. Raymond Revision History Revision 1.52 03 Jasnuary 2020 esr Go makes a place as a plausible learning language, displacing Java. Revision 1.51 06 October 2017 esr Link to "Things Every Hacker Once Knew." Mention USB-stick distros. Many updated translation links. Revision 1.50 19 July 2015 esr Added link to "Let's Go Larval". Revision 1.49 21 November 2014 esr Added link to "How To Learn Hacking". Revision 1.48 19 June 2014 esr freshmeat/freecode is dead, alas. Revis

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