581px-Word_Count_1000.svgYou may be thinking why we need to count words, lines or bytes as you read the title of this post. Actually, if you think a bit about it, you will see that it is quite useful to use a command like wc (no, it does not mean Water Cabinet, rather means something like Word Count).

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urlAs a computer programmer, you are probably studying lots of different areas of interest. Some of you may just be interested in programming, while others may also like to study about security, linux, operating systems, artificial intelligence and more. Therefore, it is more than likely that you are visiting lots of different online resources in order to gather knowledge.

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F01994DA-A405-F700-9FFC025C88C98492Do you know why people want to be better in stuff that interest them ? Because of other people. Imagine that you were the only one appreciating the value of learning how to drive blindfolded. If so, why would you do it ? What good is knowledge if nobody really messes with your findings ?

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slickeditbooksmallWhen Socrates said the famous “the only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance”, he must have been thinking of computer programmers. Well, ok, there were no computers at that time. Knowledgewise, naming computer programmers after leechers would not be considered an exaggeration, would it ?

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twitter-follow-achieverI can bet that quite some of you use Twitter often, while some others use it all the time. It’s a quite addicting website, at least for the first few months of its usage. When i first registered at Twitter and started learning more about it, i thought that it would be a good idea to use it in order to leave short automated tweets about the posts on my WordPress blog (this was actually about another website, not codercaste).

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ollydbg0Reverse Engineering has actually been the main reason why i first began learning more about computers. The days when i would go about opening up hiew editor in order to change that little 74 opcode to 90 seem hilarious at the time of writing this text, but i can understand all those people who just begin learning more about software cracking.

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