Hacker Highschool

Course Schedule

November 9-20: 5 weekday 2 hour lessons

Course Abstract

Hacking is Learning

Since 2003, we teach young adults problem solving, creative thinking, resourcefulness, researching, and deductive reasoning - through the fun, engaging world of hacking and cybersecurity.

Help your kids be more than just safe online, help them learn the skills that will take them into the future.

This remote-learning course is meant to be 10 days from November 9-20, two hours each day as an after school activity with 30 minutes of homework per day. 

Intended for teens and young adults 12 - 20 with a basic understanding of computers, and more importantly a healthy curiosity we’ll try to nurture and educate.

You can get all the details about this project at www.hackerhighschool.org .

Course Pre-requisites

We prefer that students have used a computer before and know how to move around a desktop.

Course Learning Objectives

With the motto Hacking is Learning, this course will teach hacking skills as a form of research, analysis, problem-solving, discovery, the scientific method, and cyber safety.  Students will learn how to analyze the world around them and get valuable tools on understanding how to change those things to be better. This class aims to use hacking to capture their attention and show them how to be better learners and techniques to be great at whatever they choose to do someday. Whether they want to go into technology, art, music, science, education, baking, or even cybersecurity, the Hacker Highschool program will give them that head start.

Who Should Attend

This class is for teens and young adults from ages 12 to 20. The materials and the teaching methods are designed for that level specifically to assure the student gets the most out of this course.

Course Agenda

In this course we will be touching on all of the following lessons to help grow interest and enthusiasm within the students and prepare them to keep learning for themselves or continue with more advanced classes:

• Lesson 1 - Being a Hacker

• Lesson 2 - Essential Commands

• Lesson 3 - Beneath the Internet

• Lesson 4 - Playing with Daemons

• Lesson 5 - System Identification

• Lesson 6 - Hacking Malware

• Lesson 7 - Attack Analysis

• Lesson 8 - Digital Forensics and Counter Forensics

• Lesson 9 - Hacking Email

• Lesson 10 - Web Security & Privacy

• Lesson 11 - Hacking Passwords

• Lesson 12 - Defensive Hacking

• Lesson 13 - Hacking Windows 10

• Lesson 14 - Defending Windows 10

• Lesson 15 - Hacking Music

Hardware Requirements

A video-conferencing capable computer is required with camera and headphones. Camera use is mandatory for the instructor to engage the students. We recommend you have Firefox and Chrome browsers installed.

Software Requirements

Most of the exercises will be possible with versions available on Linux, Windows 10, and Mac. Examples will be run on Linux and Windows 10. Either is acceptable and we will make a Linux Virtual Machine available for download for those running Windows and want to use the Linux versions of the commands. 

Included Course Materials

The workbooks are NOT included with the course and need to be purchased separately. Partial lesson excerpts from the books are available as free PDFs online.

Workbooks: 

https://hackerhighschool.org/books.html

PDF samples:

https://hackerhighschool.org/lessons.html