Recommendations

Recommendations list:

Unix and Shell

recommendations here are endless.

text editor

Vim, obviously, but it's not for everyone (particularly, not for beginners).

For beginners:

• Electron and Atom are great desktop editors
• Sublime Text is a good desktop editor
• nano is a good editor for beginners on the command line

learning material

software carpentry lessons are da bomb: https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/

in particular, their shell novice lesson: http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/