<center>![](https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2016/01/02/04/59/coffee-1117933_960_720.jpg)<sub>By acekreations on pixabay.com</sub></center>

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I am back, stronger than ever!

This time, not with SML (who needs that anyway ... I stopped going to the lectures when they tried to teach me grammar. Me is not interested in grammar), but with JavaScript!

@reggaemuffin introduced me to ["Codecademy"](https://www.codecademy.com/learn), which offers an extensive course for this language, in the Pro version. Lucky for me, the Pro version is free for 7 days (at least as of right now).

How extensive you ask? Well, after 3 hours of consistent coding, this is my progress:

<center>![grafik.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/suesa-random/vye5AZa2-grafik.png)</center>
There might be some more material waiting for me.

What did I code so far? Only super serious stuff, of course. How to calculate my age in dog years for example!

![Dog Years.PNG](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/suesa-random/hBPs2pVV-Dog20Years.PNG)

Or, you know, telling people what my favorite animal is!

![MyfaveAnimal.PNG](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/suesa-random/gAO74cj2-MyfaveAnimal.PNG)

Something that threw me off slightly, was that you can apparently use recursive (recursive looking?) statements, and it works without crashing everything:

![Recursion feels wrong.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/suesa-random/sIocawq6-Recursion20feels20wrong.png)

`
fahrenheit = Math.floor(fahrenheit)
`
is not something I would do in SML. Although I must confess, it's been a while since I worked with that language, maybe it'd work? My gut feeling says "no".

After I had already ~~tempered with tamparatures~~ tampered with temperatures, it was time to write something about the seasons that will expect me ~~if~~ when I move to Ireland: 404 - Summer not found.

![Summer not found.PNG](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/suesa-random/nzORue03-Summer20not20found.PNG)

The greatest thing about this tutorial? It allows you to insult non-existent people for their lack of success:

![Last place you suck.PNG](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/suesa-random/iNOHd0bo-Last20place20you20suck.PNG)

And last but not least, I wrote a short program that can tell the future. And as you all know, Magic Eight Balls do not lie, this certainly proves that Steem will moon this year!


![Steem will moon.PNG](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/suesa-random/CGNFBumo-Steem20will20moon.PNG)

So, what's my assessment so far?

JavaScript itself seems to be an easy to understand language, what I've seen so far is intuitive even for a biologist. Yes, having basic knowledge in SML might have helped, although it also led to 10 minutes of debugging, because I didn't realize that, while SML uses `if - then - else`, JavaScript uses `if - else`.

I like the fact that you can use `? :` instead of `if - else`.

```
let dessert = "pudding";

if (dessert) {
console.log("HELL YEAH!")
}
else {
console.log("Awww :( ")
};

```


is just so much more to write than


```let dessert = "pudding";

dessert ? 
console.log("HELL YEAH!")
:
console.log("Awww :( ");

```

On top of that, the tutorial offered by Codecademy is really nice. Depending on how fast I get through, I might actually pay money for the Pro version.