Setting up your environment for computer programming.
Introduction A computer becomes a development workstation (being able to develop software) only when the necessary setup is done. This will include installing text editors, IDEs (Integrated Development Environment), compilers or interpreters which comes with the specific computer programming language being installed, and installing other third-party software which serves as dependencies for your projects. For example, a hacker or penetration tester has already installed all the required software that would be needed to perform the processes needed for penetration. Some of these activities includes scanning a network to find the number of users on it, password cracking, exploiting a host on a network and so on. A fresh user who wants to be able to perform all these hacking functionalities would need to set up his or her computer to be able to do the same. Hence, as a software engineer, you would need to set up your computer to become a development workstation for developing...