There are several ways of setting up your workstation in for Joomla! development. Some suggestions can be found at Setting up your workstation for Joomla development.
Next, you should familiarise yourself with Joomla! Secure coding guidelines and the short article on Joomla! Development Best Practices.
Documentation on the Joomla! API can assist with becoming familiar with the foundations of the Joomla! code base.
Finally, Joomla! has many resources for developers. Our Joomla! Resources page will get you pointed in the right direction if you need help and solutions.
Installing a typical web server environment is very easy with following AMP-packages (Apache, MySQL, PHP).
If you want use XDebug for debuggin, you'll need to tune php settings
There are many articles, tutorials, references and FAQs which focus on component development. If this is your first time developing a component for Joomla, you should start with the Absolute Basics of How a Component Functions. If needed, you can visualise the control flow of a component with these diagrams.
Next, you will want to read our 
MVC tutorial → Developing a Model-View-Controller Component. Remember to familiarise yourself with Joomla! Secure coding guidelines and Development Best Practices.
Once you have read the tutorial and/or tried the example component, you can focus more on the specifics of your component with additional articles. These are listed on the Component Development Portal or any of the supporting Portals for Development(Plugins, Modules or Templates).
Many plugins have parameters that allows you to customise their functionality without having to edit any code. We'll investigate some of these features. Navigate to the plugin manager by going to "Extensions" in the menu in the backend of Joomla. Then click on "Plugin Manager". You will now see a list of all plugins available on your site. To see the full information on what you can do on this screen click on the "Help" button.
For a full list of plugins and their available parameters see the Help Screen Documentation by going into the edit view of a plugin and clicking on the "Help" button. Alternatively, you can browse the core plugins:
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