What programming languages should I learn?

Hi. I'm a security student in my second year of a degree program. I am not looking to become a full-time programmer or software developer. I'd just like to know enough to read and understand code so that I can check for vulnerabilities or reverse engineer. I've just completed a Python course and there won't be any more programming classes offered. So far I know: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Bash, SQL, and Python. I was thinking of studying C. Any suggestions?

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About7Narwhal

From a Admin stand point I see a lot of our server guys writing scripts in Python and Midrange using PERL. PERL should be an easy pickup for you judging from your listed languages.

GAngel

You don't need perl if you know python most of what you can do in one is redundant in the other.
C and C++ or .net/java will round you out.

Unix itself is also really helpful.

Master Of Puppets

C/C++ and assembly will be useful if you need to develop exploits or understand them. Learning Python is a great idea and the array of languages you have so far is quite good.

varelg

ITcognito wrote: »

... So far I know: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Bash, SQL, and Python. I was thinking of studying C. Any suggestions?

Interesting array. Almost evenly divided between imperative and markup languages. None is system- level programming though. Are you hoping to cover that gap? If so, I'd say go for C. I know that not picking up C hurt me while studying programming on my own and have the impression that if I picked up C first, everything else would have been much easier to comprehend.
How do you define "know" a programming language? Or should I say, how do you know you have "graduated" on certain programming language?