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An alternative approach would be to use LPC rather than using one of the standard diku derivatives.
The difference here is that the coder/builder divide hardly exists, so you can spend some time on an existing LPC mud, whether as "builder" or "coder", learning enough about how it works to have a good chance of being able to handle your own later.
Whilst there are many openings on muds, there are very few where an untrained coder can learn how the mud works - generally you need to know how to code before you are allowed to code, and there are few muds that will teach coding, though many will teach building (or at least the mechanics of how to use their editing commands).
If you decide the LPC approach is not for you, then running a suitable codebase on your own PC in order to learn is probably the best solution - assuming you don't have *nix installed, I would recommend installing cygwin, which is a linux emulator that runs on Windows (muds generally run much better on *nix than on Windows).
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