Views, PathAuto, References, Display Suite, Panels, Chaos tool suite (ctools), BUEditor and Backup and Migrate.
Installing Drupal on your local machine(s) offers you manifold advantages: It allows you to work faster and offers you the perfect playground to experiment.
The best way to learn anything new is by doing. Just start working on whatever it is you’re trying to do. Start small, just do!
If you have a problems related to Drupal it is usually very easy to find the required help with Google: You can just paste your error message or ask a question.
If the URLs are not clean after the installation (default) something went wrong: Troubleshoot and enable clean URLs.
