Hackerteen: A Brazilian Successful Hacker Educational Project
Hackerteen is a comic book created by brazilian company 4Linux for educational propouses. It was created to help teenagers to understand the hacker culture, not only technically but also politically, and computer security in a distance learning course sold by 4Linux, for now only avaiable in portuguese.
The project aims not only on technical education, but also on avoiding teenagers to spend too much time playing computer games in internet and committing virtual crimes. The main character is an exact example of these goals, Yago was a compulsive gamer becoming a skilled hacker.
The most recent success for the project is the publication of its first comic book in english. “Hackerteen Volume 1: Internet Blackout” is the first comic book published by O’Reilly, and avaiable at Amazon for US$ 13,59, but can be found for as low as US$ 10,99 in some online bookstores.
Slashdot already have a review on this book, it evaluates the book as grade 7: “A good book; better than merely adequate, though not outstanding”.
4Linux is a free software consulting and training company, created in 1995 by a group of 4 college students. After detecting the need for teenage training they have created the Hackerteen project, very successful and recognized by the Harvard Business School as the only of this kind
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