Vk9 Security - Learn Python & Hacking (from Zero to Hero)

Explore Python strings by defining text, concatenating with plus or join, indexing and slicing, and using built-in methods; encode data with Unicode and base64 while learning immutability.

Learn how Python booleans define true and false, use and, or, and not to build expressions, and evaluate comparisons like x<y and x==y; discover boolean conversion with bool and isinstance.

Explore python lists as mutable, ordered collections defined by square brackets. Master indexing, slicing, and common methods like append, insert, pop, sort, reverse, index, and count.

Learn Python dictionaries through definition, creation, and common operations like access, iteration, adding and removing key-value pairs. Explore built-in methods, nesting, and using keys to retrieve values.

Explore Python sets: understand unordered, unique elements, hashable requirements, and set building methods; perform add, clear, copy, difference, intersection, union, and update with practical examples.

Explore Python for loops and the break, continue, pass, and else statements, using range, enumerate, and zip with lists, tuples, strings, and nested loops.

Learn how Python functions use def, parameters, and return to create reusable code blocks. Explore default values, args, kw args, nested and recursive calls, docstrings, and higher order programming.

Learn how Python modules organize code, define functions and variables, and how to import with import or from, create your own modules, and use built-in modules like requests.

Understand the OSI system interconnection model, developed by ISO, as a seven-layer framework for data transmission and cross-system communication. Identify the roles of physical through application layers in real networks.

Explore packet capture concepts using Wireshark, analyzing http traffic from tcp handshake to get requests and http responses, and examining ethernet, ip, and application layer details.

Learn to use the python requests library to perform HTTP requests, manage headers and cookies, pass parameters in URLs, and send data for web scraping and API testing.

Install and use Beautiful Soup 4 to parse HTML and XML, extract text, images, and links, and convert web content to JSON, CSV, or XML with requests.

Learn to generate PDF reports using the Python FPDF library, including installation with pip and creating documents with pages, fonts, images, and text.

Explore threading in Python using the threading module, learning how to create, run, and join threads, and synchronize shared data for concurrent execution.

Learn object oriented programming in Python by mastering classes and objects, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism, then create a simple class with an init method, self attributes, and methods.

Learn to build an arp scanner in Python using Scapy to discover hosts on a local network by mapping IP addresses to MAC addresses through ARP requests and replies.