Links for online resources
Text Editors
For Windows PC: Notepad++ (free), GNU Emacs (free can be installed on MacOS and Linux as well)
Linux Environment
There are many online courses for learning basic Linux Command. For instance - https://linuxcommand.org/ .
Python
Pthon.org serves as the portal for the community. You can download the latest release from here.
BioPython has modules for bioinformatics as well as tutorials.
R for statistic computing and graphics
Like Python, R is open source - R-Project is the portal for the community.
R Studio provides an easy programing interface. Worth to give it a try if you are interested in using R.
Bioconductor serves as the portal for libraries pertain to bioinformatics and computation biology.