Should I get Windows 7 onmy MacBook Pro?

So I was thinking about getting Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro it's a early 2011 model mc721ll/a and I really need a Windows OS but I don't want to buy a windows computer becuase I need my mac for all the adobe software I have and microsoft office and just becuase I like Mac better. So I have literally had this latop for 4 days now and asked someone who knows a lot about Macs and he said I shouldn't becuase my mac is already slow as it is but I'm going to upgrade the RAM to 16gb and the hard drive to a hybrid ssd and most likely swap out the optical dirve and insert a standard ssd to make it faster, becuase verything is so slow on certain days somtimes it's fast and somtimes it's slow, but like I said only 4 days and still slow. But anyways my dilema was that I want to become a Video Game Developer (I'm a junior in high school [16]) or atleast just a computer scientist and I need to learn to code and program but I need windows for software like Unity, Cryengine, etc. and I need Windows for that becuase when I talked to my Computer Science teacher she said it would be better to have windows as you can see my dilema so what I'm asking is do you think I should get Windows 7 64-bit for my macbook (also I will be getting the upgrades on my laptop so just imagine they are there) Becuase I can't seem to find any good and free programs for developing games on mac but on windows I have found a lot.
PLEASE HELP!!!!

If you subscribe to Adobe's Creative Cloud, you can use the Windows version or the Mac versions so that shouldn't be a problem. You can also run Office 2013 on a Windows machine. You can also, of course, run a 64-bit version of Win 7 either as a virtual machine or under Boot Camp on a Mac. But you would, at the least, have to purchase a version of Windows which can be quite expensive.
You can definitely speed up your machine by adding a SSHD. More memory would help, as well, if you're going to run Windows as a virtual machine.
It's up to you - either way you're going to need to make purchases of, at least, Windows and, at the most, purchases of Windows, a virtual machine client, more RAM, etc.
Boot Camp seems your best bet - then all you would have to purchase is Windows.
Good luck,
Clinton
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