As a coder, a reserved button for HOME, END, PAGE UP, and PAGE DOWN is nearly essential for me.
I recently changed my laptop from a Samsung to a DELL, and have been terribly annoyed that you have to press "Function Left" for Home, etc. Now you have to press 3 buttons and use two hands to move to the beginning of a file when it used to be possible with one hand. Very annoying. Please keep these buttons on a laptop - especially when there are often inches of unused space left and right of the keyboard!
If you want a really entertaining way of learning about exoplanetology, I suggest checking out this music parody by acapellascience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
When I was 10 years old (1995) my dad refused to download any more DOS games on CompuServe. He said "Son, if you want to play more games, you'll have to make your own!". So I did.
I began writing DOS batch file-based adventure games. Later I learned TI-83 BASIC in grade 7, then gwbasic and QBasic in grade 10, as well as HTML by seeing what would happen if I changed file contents. Later Visual Basic, Java, Javascript, the rest is history... after a few years with Lockheed Martin I'm now the CIO of a growing software startup (vsbuilder.com).
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As a coder, a reserved button for HOME, END, PAGE UP, and PAGE DOWN is nearly essential for me. I recently changed my laptop from a Samsung to a DELL, and have been terribly annoyed that you have to press "Function Left" for Home, etc. Now you have to press 3 buttons and use two hands to move to the beginning of a file when it used to be possible with one hand. Very annoying. Please keep these buttons on a laptop - especially when there are often inches of unused space left and right of the keyboard!
If you want a really entertaining way of learning about exoplanetology, I suggest checking out this music parody by acapellascience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
When I was 10 years old (1995) my dad refused to download any more DOS games on CompuServe. He said "Son, if you want to play more games, you'll have to make your own!". So I did. I began writing DOS batch file-based adventure games. Later I learned TI-83 BASIC in grade 7, then gwbasic and QBasic in grade 10, as well as HTML by seeing what would happen if I changed file contents. Later Visual Basic, Java, Javascript, the rest is history... after a few years with Lockheed Martin I'm now the CIO of a growing software startup (vsbuilder.com).