Daily learning part thirty.
I started today's session at 16:00. I first started with the SQL Tutorial on W3Schools. I completed SQL Introduction, SQL Syntax, SQL SELECT, SQL SELECT Distinct, SQL WHERE, SQL ORDER BY, SQL AND, SQL OR, SQL NOT, and SQL INSERT INTO. I also watched a lot of videos about SQL. I forgot to mention that my laptop randomly shut down mid‑session while I was just watching a video, it was plugged in with a full battery, and without even touching it, it shut down and wouldn’t power on. I reinserted the battery and still nothing happened. After a while I came back to check on it, hit the power button, and it powered on. I don’t know what happened because I just bought it about two months ago, but anyway, let’s get back to talking about the session.
Then I took a lesson in Khan Academy Algebra and took the two practice quizzes, getting proficient on both of them. After this I moved on to XSS. I read different articles before going to PortSwigger. I completed one lab there and decided to leave PortSwigger for now. The reason is that at first I saw people recommending PortSwigger for beginners, but PortSwigger is not for beginners at all. The Web Academy only explains the vulnerabilities in theory with very little practice explaining, then it throws a bunch of different labs at you. At first one lab gives you a simple alert(), and the next expects a beginner to understand HTML context, attribute breaking, and event handlers without ever explaining them. They don’t teach anything they test. They assume you already know the underlying concepts and then throw you into different scenarios like these.
Anyways, after XSS I started CSS on W3Schools. I completed CSS Introduction, CSS Syntax, CSS Selectors, CSS How To, CSS Comments, CSS Errors, and finally CSS Comments (some of these were already things I knew about, but I followed through and practiced the lessons). I ended today’s session at 21:50.
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." Napoleon Hill
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