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@AnimeshAshish Please don't ask to ask; if you simply ask your actual question, we will help you if we know the answer or can help you find it. This is much faster and simpler than asking if it's OK to ask. As a rule, it is always OK to ask in this channel. Please go ahead.
@AnimeshAshish that's kind of the point, yes. IF a website is vulnerable to SQL injection, and you successfully pull it off, then it enables you to either read, write, or both, some information from the database that the developer didn't intend you to be able to do
I'm impressed that you didn't glean that basic information from studying it for a whole hour
I'm an undergrad. Just someone curious who likes to explore stuff. I keep studying about programs but haven't really started programming yet. If there could be any help such as an "initiation" towards my programming life. I'd be highly obliged.
Any book/course at lynda/following someone/lectures on youtube may help.
@AnimeshAshish for the topic of SQL injection, as well as basically any other information security topic, I'd recommend OWASP's wiki: owasp.org/index.php/SQL_Injection
as for a more general way to get a leg up on coding, I'll give you the same advice I give every new programmer; be interested. If you're not inherently interested in the topic enough to be self-motivated and (1) find a problem you think you can solve; (2) learn how to solve it; and (3) solve it, then you're probably not going to be a successful programmer.
You should always be observant whenever you're using a computing system of any kind
If you notice something deficient, not working properly, or missing features, take note of them
Especially if you're working with open source software
Then, consider in your head how difficult you estimate it might be to fix the problem or add that feature
If it sounds like something that you might be able to attempt, then try it; just do it
I left out an important word that an influential German programmer who works for Red Hat used when he "encouraged" me many years ago ;-) he said, "just fucking do it" (JFDI) - his acronym :)
Can you be more specific on the "courses" that I should take so as to learn programming to a higher level first? I currently know working in JAVA. How can I connect SQL with JAVA. That's it. Is that sufficient to start? And If it is. WHere from?
@AnimeshAshish Don't worry about what you know; you'll learn everything you need to learn along the way to solving a problem
Classes are there to spew general information to you in the hopes that it will be useful; most of it won't be useful, that is a fact
But you will learn a lot, and be a more useful programmer in practice, if you attempt to solve problems, and allow the problem to dictate what you learn
For example, here is a story about my most recent project
I play Star Wars: The Old Republic, a game, with other people. Multiplayer. A friend who plays that game is deaf. But everyone talks to each other using TeamSpeak. She felt kind of "left out", unable to participate in the TeamSpeak voice chat, because she can't hear. So I decided for myself that I would attempt to write a plugin for TeamSpeak to recognize spoken words and translate it into text for her to read.
I don't have to do it; and I may never fully succeed at my goal; but I started an open source project on GitHub and started learning. I had to brush up on my C++, learn a bunch of new libraries and APIs, and enlist help from Root Access folks and Stack Overflow. But I've learned a whole lot. And in the end, I may be able to help someone who's deaf :)
Look for opportunities like that in your own life as you use the computer (or even your phone or tablet), and seize them by trying to "fill those gaps".
Your motivation to help someone or develop something useful will drive you forward, and you'll learn a lot.
Let me be more precise on my question. The way you helped her out. By writing a plugin and other "cool stuff" that followed, I want you to tell me that how did you "learn" to write a plugin in the first place? Was it a course that you took? ANy boook that you read?
@AnimeshAshish No, definitely not a course or a book. That's not how I learn to do things, and I don't think it's a very good approach to learning in general. I use logic to reason things out. For example, when I first started that project, I didn't even know whether TeamSpeak had the ability to support plugins. I had to google "teamspeak plugin API", and then found that there was a plugin API.
Then I was like, "Hmm, OK, so what language would I need to use for the plugin?" and it turns out that C++ is the best language (C# is also good, in this case) for writing TeamSpeak plugins. So I had to pick my language, and then get started on the project setup.
It's 3:30am in the morning here and I am inspired,curious enough to be gaining all that you seem to impart to me. I hope I'm not disrupting your busy, productive schedule in any manner?
All you have to do is be able to identify what's the next step; what is the thing you don't currently know, that you need to know, to make progress?
Once you know what the next step is, you can go google, use Stack Overflow, etc. until you are able to resolve the question in your mind and keep going.
Learning to pick the right google terms to solve a problem is a very useful skill in itself, and one I think you should work on... I'm not sure if you can learn it any way besides experience though
where I work, my coworkers often come to me with problems, and I solve them by googling... so you could say that part of my job is to be a "professional Googler" ;-)
With all due respect, you happen to ignite my inner being. I don't really have anything but a "thanks a ton. mate" statement which I'd love to print inifinte times in for loop for you in JAVA ;)
Eh, it's probably somewhere in the backlog of chat over the years I've been here, but I'm not too enthusiastic to repeat it as it's potentially personally identifying info
Here's the thing, though: there are a lot of people (from every culture, especially Americans, lol) who go into programming for the wrong reason: "I want to make money". That's not a good enough reason. You can appreciate the money, while also being innately driven to learn and make useful programs.
I recently bought an Mi Band 2. I was curious enough to explore the abilities it could reach. So I installed an app. It was named "mi Band 2 func button" which could link my mi band to Tasker (an app which could do wondrous stuff). So, I used to turn flashligh on with double taps on my MI band. But, the problem arises when the app had 100 tap limit for the day. ANd I had to buy it to get id of it. I couldnt understand what to do now.
@AnimeshAshish oh, that's a Git branch; don't worry about the folders of source code right now... when you first visit a GitHub page like that, scroll down and read the documentation that appears beneath it :)
look for the file displaying "README.md" and it has a bunch of text and big font, etc
@AnimeshAshish the source code won't have the compiled apk, but according to the readme, you can download the release version (APK) from F-Droid: f-droid.org/repository/browse/…
F-Droid is a third-party free software app store. It's like the Google Play Store, but everything in there is open source
@AnimeshAshish That depends. Firstly, if you have money to spend, and don't care about the programs you run being proprietary (closed source), it's fine to use the Play Store, but be prepared that many app developers will ask you to pay to "unlock" all the features.
But there are many high-quality Android apps that are open source, and only some of those open source apps are in the Play Store.
F-Droid is usually used by developers who are idealistically proponents of open source or free software.
Yes, I have experienced that a lot. Whenever I encounter an app/game that is paid or something I go for cracked/mod apk. But in this Mi band func button thingy, I wasnt able to find it (full version)
I must say, you have a commendable amount of patience to talk to a newbie like me who is constantly pestering you with his low IQ, haha
Ethically, I'd advise against downloading "cracked" APKs. If you yourself can mod the APK to remove the restrictions, that's fine, as far as I'm concerned; you're doing it for learning purposes. But to download someone else's crack is both dangerous and unethical.
If you're going to be in the software industry, it's important to respect other software developers and their intellectual property, by not doing things that they'd be unhappy about. Respect their licenses, and don't "crack" software.
@AnimeshAshish Nothing that'll just do it with a push-button, no. You'd have to learn about the internal structure of the APK, probably reverse engineer some Java bytecode, etc.
It's a rather advanced thing to crack an APK; some of them can be done fairly easily but it depends on how it was developed
@AnimeshAshish Yes. Developers who release closed-source software are making a deliberate choice. To crack their software goes against their wishes, and is potentially illegal, depending on where you live, where the developer lives, and what you do.
Not only that, but cracked software has a very high chance of having viruses, malware and spyware embedded in it, by the people who cracked it.
Just think: if someone is smart enough to crack an APK, they're certainly smart enough to put their own custom code in that APK that is intended to harm you
There was this game called Mini Militia. Everbody in my friend's group played it. But one fine day a boy had a modded Mini Militia. He was able to choose the battlegrounds, unlimited ammo and stuff. Every body took that app from him. God, I should be knowing this then.
@Bob right, but this is using CSCore.Ffmpeg, which implements the IWaveSource interface just like your RawDataReader, and uses libswresample from ffmpeg in the backend to do the same thing
The comments I made on that issue are not related to any Win32-specific code
@allquixotic : Thank you, sir :) . I am highly obliged. TO be honest, This was the most productive hour of my life to learn how to actually "ignite" that spark in me.
@AnimeshAshish good, because there are too many people in the software profession that don't have that, even with Master's degrees in Computer Science and a professional job
I think you can go a lot further with strong motivation than with a piece of paper that says "I am a Master of Computer Science"
@AnimeshAshish oh, he belatedly replied to me about a conversation we were having earlier, about the capabilities of the CSCore library and whether it will work outside of Windows (e.g. on a Mac or Linux), and as usual he's correct and I'm wrong. I thought it could do what I want on Mac/Linux but it can't (yet?)
I started writing kynnaugh-cc in C++, a while back, and simultaneously inspired Bob to work on kynnaugh-cs in C# as a "friendly competition" to see who could make the better / more portable version of it :P
the general idea of the project is to implement that TeamSpeak plugin for speech to text, like I mentioned earlier
we're both learning a lot as we go about the development process :)
@AnimeshAshish that's a work in progress, actually -- the developers of CSCore have started to support it on Linux, and once it runs on Linux, it should be pretty easy to run it on Android too
it's not done but they're actively working on it, as far as I can tell
@AnimeshAshish not personally, no, but I know their github names and I've read comments from them in the issues
@AnimeshAshish well, kind of... I've always been innately inspired, but I got inspired by people a very long time ago... so long ago, in fact, that you might have been a child, or not even born... I'm pretty old
@AnimeshAshish this sort of developer talk originated on the Internet on mailing lists, like usenet; it's also very popular on IRC. But the more "modern" services use chat services such as Slack and Gitter.im
usenet was a 90s thing. IRC is still used, but less popular now than it used to be. Slack and Gitter.im have only existed for a few years.
I need to go home; it's 6pm / 18:00 here and I have to leave work, go shopping, etc. I'll see you around :) Good luck with your career. / And yes, you'll be able to view the chat backlog forever. Stack Exchange does not delete the chat (unless it's flagged as spam/abuse and deleted)
you can always search the chat or scroll up and view older chat
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I remember my reaction on Superuser when I hit 10K...
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@MichaelHampton alas. Those 20 dollar drives did seem too good to be true.
I remember my reaction on Superuser when I hit 10K...
Someone else was like "Congratulations" and I was all "Wait, WHAT?". Then I hit 20K and realised there were no more worlds to conquer no more privileges to be gained ...
I'm close to 50K now. Rep is really just a number, and it has not real...
