Programming language: Python (but HTML/JavaScript/Typescript etc. also possible should You decide to build a web-based app)
Rhino, Fusion, Blender etc. can also be handy
Flowise, text-generation-webui, whispr / DeepSpeech speech-to-text
we'll be also practicing a lot of "terminal magic" (i.e. command-line)
git, git, git ...