This week I started remembering JavaScript (two years ago I picked up a little bit). A few fun things:

1. I understand @horse_js better now!
2. I sort of understand the differences among Node, npm, ClojureScript, CoffeeScript, and random noun.js files.
3. I paired with Tom, one of the facilitators, to port my Obama speech generator to JS. I can successfully write functions (including higher-order functions), randomly choose things using Math.random, make and use arrays and Objects, display things in a webpage, write for loops, get input from the user using prompt(), and put semicolons everywhere.
4. The JSFiddle tutorial didn't mention a necessary step so I added it.
5. The incrementation step in a JavaScript for loop keeps happening until the step when the run condition is no longer satisfied, so it's sort of more like a while loop? Anyway this tripped me up and gave me an off-by-one error until I grokked it.
6. I'm glad Eloquent JavaScript is available online for free, and I'm glad that Node comes with a REPL. But, because I have been doing so much Python, it's natural for me to think that pretty basic things will work the same across lots of environments. And the textbook, as early as the first chapter, suggests doing things like print() and show() that give me stark errors in Node.
7. Seriously, JavaScript, if I just try to add together a number and a string you might just try to make it work and give me something back? That does not strike me as the most logical choice.

   > 40+["yay", 23]
'40yay,23'
> 23+Object()
'23[object Object]'


Thus, I have now watched "WAT" and enjoyed it. And I have made software put "Thank you, and may God bless NoSQL." on a webpage. So that's a good harvest.