Tomorrow I begin my 10-week program at Launch Academy. When I was first accepted to the program months ago, the start date seemed incredibly far away. But like most everything in life, tomorrow has come quicker than I thought it would. I am excited to start and looking forward to readjusting my life to the “boot-camp” style schedule of living and learning.

I have completed all of the assigned prep work and, while a lot of it has generally been reviewing topics that I have varying amounts of experience with, I have definitely learned a bunch of new things. The topics included HTML and CSS, the console, using the git VCS, database fundamentals, and an introduction to Ruby. The most challenging topic for me was probably learning and using git and that is mainly because it is a technology that I had almost no contact with prior to the assignments in the prep work. I was impressed with its functionality and I look forward to using it more during my time at Launch Academy. Being exposed to all of these various technologies has helped reinforce the idea that there are a lot of topics that I need to not only learn how they work, but how they work and interact with each other.

So while this blog post may be brief, my hope is that as the weeks go by, the rate at which we learn material will give me an increasingly larger amount of topics to write about. The only question that arises is that when the pace of learning increases, will my available time then be my limiting factor? I guess that is something that I must wait and find out tomorrow.