If you are a comp sci junior you shold be a bit farther ahead.... oh well. A broke person (like me) would just use gcc + sdl for games
I have VS.net, but eh, don't have windows on my machine anymore. I only have mac osx, linux and bsd, so GCC is where it's at.
VS.net is a nice IDE, just never got used to it. makefiles all the way baby
