Programming Lanagague

Hello,
From a security point of view what would be the best scritping/programming lanagaue to learn and why?
Thanks!
From a security point of view what would be the best scritping/programming lanagaue to learn and why?
Thanks!
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PHP
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Ruby is definitely nice but I would start with the top two first.
That being said, I will reiterate the answer Python, because it fulfills many of these needs and is useful on most platforms. PowerShell is also extremely useful on Windows, and personally I prefer to write PowerShell scripts over BASH or Python scripts. VBscript really has little to no use when PowerShell can be used. PowerShell can do pretty much everything VBScript can in less and easier-to-use code.
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I'm going to have to disagree with this. VBScript is a thing of the past, if you want to script in a windows environment you are better off starting with Powershell. Powershell is the future of all Windows automation/scripting.
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PHP
Kotlin
Intro to Discrete Math
Programming Languages
Work stuff
Edit: You should definitely learn a language opposed to learning JUST shell scripting.
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Hmm...to be honest, I'm not real familiar with powershell. I've played around a little bit with it, and was pleased to find that it had a very bash-esque approach to navigating the file system on command line. But other than that, I didn't really know it was such a powerful tool...and honestly didn't even realize you could script in powershell. This intrigues me. How do I get started? Anybody have any good resources for learning powershell scripting?
Most of the PowerShell resources I've used have been direct from Microsoft. Lots of standard Technet articles, and The Scripting Guy blog is just awesome. Just about every question I've ever asked as I've been writing something in PowerShell has come up on that blog.
Just to give a comparison, simple WMI tasks that would usually take me an hour or more in VBScript usually take me ten minutes in PowerShell. Unless you program or script in some variation of VB day in and day out, PowerShell is a huge time saver.
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Next up: MATH 211, ECON 352, ICS 340
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PHP
Kotlin
Intro to Discrete Math
Programming Languages
Work stuff
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Pretty much all of Microsoft's administrative GUIs now are just GUI front-ends to Powershell commands. Exchange, Lync, etc all have command shells that have tons of cmdlets for administering the system. There are some tasks that can't be performed in the GUI and can only be done from Powershell. You should check it out, it is a definite time saver.
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hrmph...no kindle version :-/. Must find other options.
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See if you can persuade your organization to spring for a Safari Books Online subscription. If your organization tends to buy a lot of reference books, Safari Books Online will save them a lot of money... Safari gets current books pretty quickly so you'll always have up to date info. The subscription is under $500/yr and you get access to all of their books and training videos. You also get a limited number of tokens with which you can download a .pdf/.mobi/.epub version of a book. They also have an offline e-reader app for iPad and Android tabs. It's pretty damn awesome.
And just so everyone knows, I am not affiliated with Safari Books in any way. I work for the man.
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Actually not a bad idea at all. I think I could pitch that pretty well. They are having a lot of trouble getting people to keep up with their continuing education for their 8570 certs (I think only myself and two others in our squadron have completed it). And a big part of the reason behind that is that the only option they have for people (if you are not a cert junky like myself) is ridiculously long and boring CBTs. But I know that most CE programs will honor reading technical books for credit. I think I spin it from that angle, I might be able to get it approved.
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Unfortunately, a plugin is required to get Python running on powershell. Since I work in an organization with a very strict (and fairly dysfunctional) Change Management program, python in powershell is not really an option for me
+1 for Java