Elysian Shadows

From what you said it sounds like you are fairly new to programming and you want to be able to engineer your future programs so they are flawless. Sadly, this isn't possible no matter how hard you try, it just comes with lots of practice. The more you program, the more you will realize that your old...

It doesen't matter as long as you stick with it for the entire project. If you decide to work on team projects your going to have to learn to adapt to different conventions to keep things consistent between team members anyway. With that said, there's certain language dependent naming conventions th...

Yes, in visual studio for example, my headers and source files are in separate "folders". However, when you look at them in the project folder outside of Visual Studio, they are NOT in separate folders.

I'm going to take a guess that it is the same as in Visual Studio. The only reason they call it virtual is because it isn't a folder that actually exists on your disk - it only exists in the IDE, for organizational purposes.

Their game looks great. I don't even have anything against using XNA, it's alright if you want to focuss on the game design instead of the lower level programming. But, what I hate about these guys is the arrogance of their team, especially when it's coming from the team members that don't even cont...

Say you have a class called Apple. Then, you have a method eat().

if eat() is static, you call it like this: if eat() is non-static, you first create an Instance of Apple, then call eat() on the instance:

Java, C++ and a small amount of Pascal.

If you use JOGL you will have to use awt for input. With LWJGL however, it handles input too. LWJGL is also a lot cleaner, more stable, and makes more sense because JOGL is object-oriented (over complicates everything, especially if you already have experience using openGL in C++). In the past peopl...