Signed up for a coding school

Well, I signed up for an online coding school that's going to take me roughly 2 years to get through. Hopefully I get through it faster than that.  =)

I'm going to be learning Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Angular and a few others. After my conference call with my instructor last night, I am now charged with creating a blog post once a week. The topics will be either a few notes I took going over the material or anything new that I've learned. The first module from what I can tell so far, covers Ruby, Markdown, Rails, Git, command line concepts and I just forked my first repository (a Jekyll template) 2 days ago and created a blogging application. Once I get more confident in knowing what I'm doing, I might move this blog over to the app that I created (well, forked, modified etc).

As far as my first post is concerned, I thought I'd give just the basic information of what I've gone over for the past 3 weeks.

I signed up with an online school called Bloc. The tuition isn't cheap by any means but so far I think it's worth it.

I'm signed up for the Software Engineering track which currently is divided up into 4 sections.

1. Rails Web Development
2. Front End Development
3. Software Engineering Principles
4. Open Source Apprenticeship

The first 2 are probably self explanatory. Number 3 entails learning more computer science type topics like data structures, algorithms, databases and SQL and design patterns. Number 4 basically has 2 sections...creating an open source project and then contributing to an existing open source project.

From what I can tell, I'm going to learn about the topics in the order that they appear in list above.

I'll post more detail about what I'm learning in my next blog entry which will probably be this weekend or if I get stuck on one of the exercises or assignments that I'm going back to now.

Cheers!