What program exactly do you use? I asked my dad (he's a programmer) and he said he uses Microsoft Visual Studio. I installed that and I'm really lost lol. The reason I'm wanting to do this is because me and my friend are thinking about making a game (yea probobly gonna be hard but whatever). I've heard that linux is a good programming OS. I have Linux on my computer (I'm a programming newb not a Linux newb). What program would I use for that? I'm guessing though since it's a game that we want to run in Windows I should probobly program it in Windows. I would want to do it in Linux but the 3D drivers (well ATI anyway) aren't that great.

My suggestion: pick an operating system you want to play the game on and program in that environment. For a first major coding project (and especially for a beginning programmer), you will run into many, many headaches if you try to write code in one operating system, and then use it on another. There are lots of issues with this. Keep it simple at first, then start living dangerously later on.

As for what to develop with, I always like Borland's C++ Builder package in Windows. However, I don't know how well it could be used for game development; I always used it for a static GUI interface for utility programs. For Linux, I would just use vi or emacs and a command line to compile stuff with gcc to start with. Then again, you could grab Anjuta or Eclipse. They seem to be fairly popular development environments.

that "great game" Frozen-Bubble" was written in Perl,
So it's just a matter of what Language you want to learn
and then learn it well........