What will I miss by jumping straight into ASP.NET MVC?
I come from a computer science type background (lots of [usaco][1] style problems), working mainly in C/C++ and recently decided that I wanted to get into web development. I have some experience with C# making basic Windows Forms Applications as well.

I spent some time researching what seemed to be my two best options: PHP/MySQL or ASP.NET MVC. I figured that I would go with ASP.NET largely because I was much more familiar with strongly typed languages and although I am more of a linux/vim fan, I am comfortable using VS.

I have a fairly basic knowledge of html/CSS and was expecting to develop this further as I followed my ASP.NET MVC web dev path; however, after starting to go through some tutorials/information, I am noticing how abstracted everything seems to be with html helpers etc. Am I going to learn all the fundamentals of web development or am I just going to learn how to develop sites within this particular environment? If so, what might a checklist of prerequisite web development knowledge look like? that I can go through before proceeding with ASP.

Could a case be made for starting with PHP/MySQL to learn how everything fits together, without an IDE organizing and abstracting everything for me, and then proceeding with ASP.NET MVC?

  [1]: http://www.usaco.org/
What will I miss by jumping straight into ASP.NET MVC?
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I come from a computer science type background (lots of [usaco][1] style problems), working mainly in C/C++ and recently decided that I wanted to get into web development. I have some experience with C# making basic Windows Forms Applications as well.

I spent some time researching what seemed to be my two best options: PHP/MySQL or ASP.NET MVC. I figured that I would go with ASP.NET largely because I was much more familiar with strongly typed languages and although I am more of a linux/vim fan, I am comfortable using VS.

I have a fairly basic knowledge of html/CSS and was expecting to develop this further as I followed my ASP.NET MVC web dev path; however, after starting to go through some tutorials/information, I am noticing how abstracted everything seems to be with html helpers etc. Am I going to learn all the fundamentals of web development or am I just going to learn how to develop sites within this particular environment? If so, what might a checklist of prerequisite web development knowledge look like? that I can go through before proceeding with ASP.

Could a case be made for starting with PHP/MySQL to learn how everything fits together, without an IDE organizing and abstracting everything for me, and then proceeding with ASP.NET MVC?

  [1]: http://www.usaco.org/