Jacob, What, exactly, do you mean by 'hack'? The free dictionary wiktionary
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki gives the following definitions hack Verb to hack (third-person singular simple present hacks, present participle hacking, simple past hacked, past participle hacked) 1. To cough noisily. This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking. 2. To chop or cut down in a rough manner. They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle. 3. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation. Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water? 4. To play hackeysack. 5. to accomplish a difficult programming task. She can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected. 6. To work with on an intimately technical level. I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection. 7. To make a quick code change to patch a computer program. I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.. 8. To gain unauthorized access to a computer system (e.g. website) by manipulating code. (Widely called "crack") 9. to hack into; to gain illegal access to a computer network; a "crack" in computer parlance. I'm going to guess that you aren't referring to any of the first four definitions, so I'll bypass those. If your interest is in definition 5, 6, or 7, the short answer is, you learn by doing. Find a problem you want to solve, make a stab (hack, if you will) at solving it using Python, and post questions here. There are many skilled people here who will be more than happy to help. If you're talking about definitions 8 or 9, you've come to the wrong place. No one here is interested in helping people break the law or steal someone else's intellectual property. Go to http://catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#MS_hater and read Eric's excellent essay on hacking. If you're still interested, come on back and we'll help you get started. Regards, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 541-302-1107 ________________________ We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals. -Quarry worker's creed > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:36:26 -0600 > From: "Jacob Simonovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Tutor] (no subject) > To: <tutor@python.org> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I want to learn how to hack but don't know where to start. I have been > searching all over the internet to try to find things out but none of the > websites have helped me. I would like to know the tools needed and just a > step by step process on how to do it using widows xp home edition. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/attachments/20060301/680c01c3/att ac > hment.htm > > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor