Resources
Bioinformatics Core Facility
Learning a different language is not easy. Nonetheless, everybody can do it.
If you want to learn a new language the best is to practice on daily basis and in real life scenarios.
Install Linux on your computer (http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop). Stop using excel or other similar software and start using R (https://cran.r-project.org) or Python (https://www.python.org) and it's data frame package Pandas (http://pandas.pydata.org). If you wish to avoid changes in your system while trying this you can install linux on a virtual machine (https://www.virtualbox.org; http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Ubuntu-on-VirtualBox).
Here you can find links to useful online resources:
Bash
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html
The R project for statistical computing
http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000482
http://master.bioconductor.org/help/course-materials/
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Martinez-RforBiologistv1.1.pdf