1. Preferred Brand: Asus, or any other brand if the price and spec are better
2. Budget: below RM1500, or cheapest, which ever suitable
3. Usage: for basic programming, windows visual studio, oracle and future learning programs (I'm a Software Engineering student), no gaming, maybe some music or videos
4. Preferred laptop/screen size: the smaller the better

and the most important is, if can the processor should be Intel i5