Originally Posted by
Grizzly
If you are wanting to learn programming and hacking, that isn't really something you can be mentored into. You have to do research to discover those things for yourself, and to make your own path into that world. But, I will give you a bit of advice.
For a beginner, I would have to suggest that you learn the programming language Lua. Lua is a simple programming language that is used mainly for developing games. There are thousands of guides and video that you can view to help you, and hundreds of forums where you can ask for help. Once you are proficient with Lua, then you can expand into python, which is where you essentially can branch off into any direction, as Python can be used for nearly everything. Lua is the best way into the game making/hacking industry, because Lua's syntax is derived from Python, which means that if you know Lua, python will be much more easier to learn, and will open your doors a bit into the industry.
If you know how to build a game, it makes it 99% more easier to hack one.