How to Become a Free Software Hacker: 15 Steps (with Pictures)

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Software hackers spend their time building, tweaking, and updating free software so it’s more enjoyable for users. Therefore, if you want to be a software hacker, you’ll need to have a pretty good understanding of both system and programming languages. To learn a system and programming language, start by choosing which platform you want to work on, like Windows, iOS, or Android, since each platform uses different languages. Then, use free online tutorials to teach yourself at least 1 system and programming language for that platform so you can start contributing to projects. For more tips, like how to get involved with the software hacking community, scroll down!

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