How to Start Hacking?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10157518

by CaiGengYang • 11 years ago

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Ok, so I feel like I need to get something done. I want to create a "hack" --- how , where do I start?

I downloaded Python 3.4.3 and learned how to open its IDLE ... what can I do next ?

hardwaresofton• 11 years ago

What do you like to do? Generally "hacking" on projects is easier when you're hacking on something you like.

If you have nothing in particular you want to do, maybe you can hack on some open source projects?

If you've literally just downloaded python and downloaded/opened IDLE, then maybe you should learn some python: I've found this guide to be very useful: http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/python/

An interesting thing you could probably do with not-too-much python is some light data analysis. Download an interesting data dump from somewhere, and see if you can use python to parse through the data and find anything interesting.

Free Forex Historical Data (an old link I had saved, not sure if it will be any good): http://www.histdata.com/

Uber pickup data from NYC: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/uber-tlc-foil-response

Maybe even find some data related to something you're interested in, and do some analysis with that.

CaiGengYang3• 11 years ago

I like playing Weiqi and am a fairly strong player when I concentrate ...

I wanna make a Go playing AI Program ...

CaiGengYang3• 11 years ago

Input : print "Weiqi And Artificial Intelligence"

Output :

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/python2.6 /Users/CaiGengYang/PycharmProjects/helloworld/hello.py Weiqi And Artificial Intelligence

Process finished with exit code 0

helcim• 11 years ago

write first line of code and see it fail.

CaiGengYang3• 11 years ago

Input : print "Weiqi And Artificial Intelligence"

Output : /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/python2.6 /Users/CaiGengYang/PycharmProjects/helloworld/hello.py Weiqi And Artificial Intelligence

Process finished with exit code 0

How to Start Hacking?

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