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My decision to take up a programming job - returning to software engineering - and start climbing the more typical career path for a computer science graduate has been met with an understandable amount of scepticism and confusion from friends and acquaintances that know me.

When I heard about the Hashnode Christmas Hackathon, I immediately began brainstorming ideas to develop something that members of the community might find useful, but would also be a great learning experience for me.

When I first arrived at my new school, I was completely unaware of what programming language they were using to teach the students - it’s something that is prone to change over time and isn’t usually mentioned on a job spec.

A degree, whether it be in computer science, software engineering, mathematics or a related field is often marketed as the golden ticket for those wanting a lucrative career in programming. An often extortionately expensive goose that will eventually lay golden eggs for years to come.

Chances are, you do the majority of your work and everyday computer usage through your web browser. It is your portal to the vast majority of what the World Wide Web has to offer, and unfortunately is one of the most common vectors for malicious software or attackers to leverage as they try to break their way in.

Remember Clippy? The (not very) helpful assistant that was a major part of Microsoft Office for numerous years? Sure you do! These interactive assistants were part of the Microsoft Agent suite of technologies and were incorporated into Windows XP as well.

The importance of software documentation, even in an agile world, is undisputed. Keeping documentation, especially for APIs, up-to-date however can be an additional burden on a development team, and thus automatically generated documentation can help supplement this by producing reference materials.

The Internet has a wealth of great articles with a wealth of useful advice on supporting your fellow developers, colleagues, and most critically, yourself, as you progress through your software engineering career, or whatever path you find yourself upon.

In this guide, I’ll be showing you step-by-step what you need to do to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and then both PHP and the Composer package manager. As a prerequisite, this requires an up-to-date version of Windows 10.

I have no doubt that if you work in any realm of software engineering, or have at the very least spent enough time on Twitter, you’ll have encountered the seemingly endless cycles of arguments about what programming language, framework, or paradigm is best, and why everyone else is wrong.