emacs instead of visual c++?

[eugene_6]

i'm a cs student..
my teacher says we r going to use visual c++ as an ide..

i just don't want to go back to window to use visual c++.

can i do whatever visual can do with emacs?

with java, there is jde which can be integrated to emacs.

how about c++? do i have to make "makefile" to compile several files? i hope there r some other solutions..

thank you.

any good site for beginner programmer with emacs??

thank you..