Learning JavaScript, Day 2 – Syntax, Statements, and Comments

Okay, I need to stop looking at the Gallery 1988 closing down sale, and actually do some JavaScript. I went to aqua aerobics. I went to the store. I hung out the laundry. I have done all my chores. This is the last chore of the day, according to my little Finch dude. I'm going to put on some frutiger aero music, drink my not-really 7-Up beverage, and do some goddamned JavaScript. JavaScript SyntaxMan, nothing I've done before got into syntax and value rules. This is, like, serious stuff here. // How to Declare variables: let x = 5; let y = 6; // How to Compute values: let z = x + y; // I am a Comment. I do Nothing Poor little comment. YOU DO PLENTY. I think I might have a hard time actually calling a fixed value a "literal". I mean, come on. Really? Literal? You literally call it literal? (Ahhhh, yes, I have to make that joke.) They also introduce let and const, which the previous JavaScript course totally did not do. When they wanted to define a variable, they used var. Which yeah,…