Hackbright Day 14: An Ode to GeoCities, erm... I mean JavaScript

We learned about javascript today. Yes, that javascript that let you have the greatest websites the 90s could produce:

This website is still active and more fabulous than you could possibly imagine.

If you've been keeping track, that makes the new language count up to 4 this week: sql, html, css, and javascript. Not to mention that we just started with flask too.

Things to note about javascript
{
it was written in 10 days;
it has some weird quirks, like === is strictly equal and 19=="19", which is not strictly equal;
it uses curly braces and semi-colons; similar to C; 
I may have had horrible flashbacks to CSE 231 again when they showed us how for loops work;
you need to use parentheses around the conditional statements in your if statements;
the javascript "equivalent" of a python dictionary is called an object; 
     objects behave an awful lot like python classes;
}

I think that I'll end up using it in combination with probably flask, possibly django and whatever horrible amount of CSS and HTML I'll need to put together my project.

And if you're feeling nostalgic about the before times filled with the flashing, spastic wonder that was geocities, One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age is an amazing repository .