Working With the Keyboard

We spend a lot of time in various applications tapping away at our keyboards. In case you are wondering what a keyboard looks like, here is a sweet one from I think about a hundred years ago:

Anyway, our computers (more specifically, the applications that run on them) just know how to deal with our board of plastic depressible keys. You never really think about it. Sometimes, depending on what you are doing, you will have to think about them. In fact, you'll have to deal with them and make them work properly.

By the end of this tutorial, you will learn all about how to listen to the keyboard events, what each of those events do, and see a handful of examples that highlight some handy tricks that may come in...um...handy.

Onwards!