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The members of this culture originated the term. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the. Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers make the World Wide. Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to. The hacker mind set is not confined to this software hacker. There are people who apply the hacker attitude to other. Software hackers recognize. But in the rest of this document we will focus on the skills and. There is another group of people who loudly call themselves. These are people mainly adolescent males who. Real hackers call these people crackers and. Real hackers mostly think crackers are. Unfortunately, many. The basic difference is this hackers build things, crackers. If you want to be a hacker, keep reading. If you want to be a cracker. And thats all Im going to say about. Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom. To be accepted as a hacker, you have to. And to. behave as though you have the attitude, you have to really believe the. But if you think of cultivating hacker attitudes as just a way. Becoming. the kind of person who believes these things is important for. As with all creative arts, the most effective way to. Or, as the following modern Zen poem has it To follow the path look to the master,follow the master,walk with the master,see through the master,become the master. So, if you want to be a hacker, repeat the following things until. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved. Being a hacker is lots of fun, but its a kind of fun that takes. The effort takes motivation. Successful athletes get. Similarly, to be a hacker you have to get a basic thrill from solving. If you arent the kind of person that feels this way naturally, youll. Otherwise youll. You also have to develop a kind of faith in your own learning. No problem should ever have to be solved twice. Creative brains are a valuable, limited resource. They shouldnt be. To behave like a hacker, you have to believe that the thinking time of. Note, however, that No problem should ever have to be solved. Often, we learn a lot about the problem that we didnt. Its OK, and. often necessary, to decide that we can do better. Whats not OK is. You dont have to believe that youre obligated to give. Its consistent with hacker values to sell enough of it to keep you in. Its fine to use your hacking skills to. Boredom and drudgery are evil. Hackers and creative people in general should never be bored or have. This wastefulness hurts everybody. Therefore boredom and drudgery are. To behave like a hacker, you have to believe this enough to want to. There is one apparent exception to this. Hackers will. sometimes do things that may seem repetitive or boring to an observer. But this. is by choice nobody who can think should ever be forced into a. Hackers are naturally anti authoritarian. Anyone who can give you. So the. authoritarian attitude has to be fought wherever you find it, lest. This isnt the same as fighting all authority. Children need to be. A hacker may agree to accept some. But thats a limited, conscious. Authoritarians thrive on censorship and secrecy. And they. distrust voluntary cooperation and information sharing they. So to behave. like a hacker, you have to develop an instinctive hostility to. And you have to be willing to act on that. Attitude is no substitute for competence. To be a hacker, you have to develop some of these attitudes. But. copping an attitude alone wont make you a hacker, any more than it. Becoming a hacker. Therefore, you have to learn to distrust attitude and respect. Hackers wont let posers waste their time. Competence at demanding skills that. If you revere competence, youll enjoy developing it in yourself. That attitude is vital to becoming a. The hacker attitude is vital, but skills are even more vital. Attitude is no substitute for competence, and theres a certain basic. This toolkit changes slowly over time as technology creates new skills. For example, it used to include programming. HTML. But. right now it pretty clearly includes the following This, of course, is the fundamental hacking skill. If you dont. know any computer languages, I recommend starting with Python. It is. cleanly designed, well documented, and relatively kind to beginners. Despite being a good first language, it is not just a toy it is very. I have. written a more detailed evaluation of. Python. Good tutorials are. Python. web site theres an excellent third party one at Computer Science. Circles. I used to recommend Java as a good language to learn early, but. The Pitfalls of. Java as a First Programming Language within it. A hacker. cannot, as they devastatingly put it approach problem solving. Now I think it is. C and Lisp first, then Java. There is perhaps a more general point here. If a language does too. 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