Your scale refers to skill levels totally unrelated to those required for programming.
In my experience, the Windows Phone development tools are generally good, the target hardware is specified, the documentation is decent, so I guess that making an app is not hard. Compared to other platforms, I find it as easy or hard as developing for iOS. I think the iOS documentations os better maintained though. I have no experience with Android, but judging from fellow developers, the dev tools are less polished and the hardware base is so broad, that it can be harder.
Of course, making an app and making a good app are two different things!
In any case, having Visual Studio means nothing. Starting from no programming knowledge at all, developing for any specialized platform is hard.
09-17-2015 09:16 AM