ASP.net or ASP.net MVC?

Hi,
I would just like to ask your opinion regarding ASP.net and ASP.net MVC. I am a beginner in web programming..and by beginner I mean 0 experience and totally have no clue on C#. I did some programming but it's for a different language. Just recently, I had an idea for a web application and did a little bit of a research on which platform should I learn (e.g. ASP, PHP etc). So I decided to go with ASP since I have been informed that the IDE for ASP is better than the other platforms and ASP is supposed to be more robust.
Anyway, I am a bit confused on what I should learn for my purpose, if it's going to be ASP.net or MVC. I have a general overview on their difference but I am not quite sure which one I should learn (I've been hearing a lot of good things regarding MVC and about it being better than the classic ASP.net and some say ASP.net is better as some of the components are readily available). Also, I have read some stuff that after learning ASP.net and ...