Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python

Introduction

Hello again, world! As a teenage programmer and wannabe hacker in the late 1990s, I would pore over the latest issues of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. One day, I finally summoned the courage to attend the magazine’s monthly meetup in my city and was in awe of how knowledgeable everyone else seemed. (Later, I’d realize that many of them had more confidence than actual knowledge.) I spent the entire meeting nodding along to what others were saying, trying to keep up with their conversations. I left that meetup determined to spend every waking hour studying computing, programming, and network security so I could join the discussions at ...