It's been 4 years since I started working as a penetration tester so I'm barely a medior but I realized a hard truth (actually @buherator made me realize this, haha) during this journey. You can be a pentester without any special programming knowledge, knowing only some bash/python scripting will get you somewhere but if you
really wanna advance in this field you gotta learn programming properly.

This is why i'm dipping my toes in C2 client/server development as im progressing through the book "Advanced Penetration Testing" by Wil Allsopp. I'm probably not gonna use these practice tools in a real engagement but I think it'll be profitable to see how these kind of tools are built from the ground up.

In the last week I've posted some tutorials intended for beginners regarding the exercises in the book:

https://cygnus.mataroa.blog/blog/apt-insights-part-1-vba-and-vbs/
https://cygnus.mataroa.blog/blog/apt-insights-part-2-command-and-control/
https://cygnus.mataroa.blog/blog/apt-insights-part-21-cc-dev-environment-with-visual-studio-and-vcpkg/

https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Penetration-Testing-Hacking-Networks/dp/1119367689