Get a Mac - as others have pointed out OS X is a *nix variant so you can set up a dev environment that is similar to what most production environments are. I u

Get a Mac - as others have pointed out OS X is a *nix variant so you can set up a dev environment that is similar to what most production environments are. I use fink, vi, TextMate and NetBeans w/ mariadb, nginx, php, python, java. Learn git and how to use some basic command line stuff like grep and find. If you're learning the front end stuff, learn a framework like Bootstrap too. Get yourself a cheap (USD 5 / month) VPS node, set it up and figure out how to deploy also.