Bash on Windows. Why? Good or evil? Thoughts?

Ok so I'm going to throw it out there, I'm a newcomer-ish to both Ubuntu and programming (2nd year CS). I'm using Ubuntu for the OS module. Can I run the C programmes in a "Windows" environment now?

@Artemix's way sounds legit but let me just add that when I couldn't get elementary to install on my laptop, I had to rely on bash on Windows till i could figure out a way.

And it's a piece of work, yes it's fragile right now. FS monitoring doesn't work, nor does ping and a lot other things but my work involved making APIs and interacting with mongo, which worked flawlessly.

Mind you this was months ago, ymmv if you installed the creator's update (it updated Ubuntu to 16.04)

bash on windows is fully functional ubuntu. works very nice.