I wrote a similar answer on stack overflow a while ago. I would recommend Parallels to run windows and Visual Studio if you can. The community edition is free a

I wrote a similar answer on stack overflow a while ago. I would recommend Parallels to run windows and Visual Studio if you can. The community edition is free and is basically the pro version of it. The main reason why you want to use VS is because if you just want to learn the language most of the resources out there assume you're coming from Visual Studio/Windows. There's enough crap to worry about without trying to figure out issues with your IDE/compiler/etc.