Here is the list of software that we will be using throughout the program relating to software development and server administration. All of this software is entirely free (except for phpStorm but we have a license for that).
An ugly FTP/SFTP client.
Download: https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client
A prettier FTP/SFTP client.
Download: http://cyberduck.io/?l=en
A free and open source IDE.
Download: https://netbeans.org/downloads/
A paid and closed source IDE - but the owners were kind enough to give us an educational license. It's free for us. Let's use it. A lot.
Download: http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/download/
An SSH client for Windows. We're going to be using this for server administration when we launch our websites.
Download: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty-0.63-installer.exe
An Apache, MySQL, and PHP setup for Windows that will make life easier for WordPress development.
Download: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
A relatively young but very stable text editor.
Download: http://brackets.io/index.html
An extremely powerful text editor that has a large community with a lot of plug-ins.
Download: http://www.sublimetext.com/3