Late update, summary, thoughts so far.

It's been a while, blog! Three weeks, in fact. Today is the Monday of the 3rd week of Coding Dojo, so I should probably give an update on what I've covered so far.

Here's a summary of the past 2 weeks:
- 1st Week: HTML, CSS, and a little bit of Javascript
- 2nd Week: jQuery, Git, and "putting it all together"

In addition, every day we have an algorithms session at 9 AM, where we are given a few algorithms to implement in Javascript and where we are grouped with and deliberate with other cohort members to come up with the best solution to the problem. If you've ever taken an algorithms and data structure course at the university level, what we learn there will be very familiar to you.

I was amazed at the range of backgrounds of the people in my cohort. Contrary to my belief that most of my cohort would be young, fresh-out-of-college students with engineering backgrounds, most members are older than I am and some haven't touched a computer for reasons other than Facebook or e-mail. However, that doesn't mean that I can be complacent in my studies, because everyone works as hard or harder than I do to catch up or get familiar with the content.

Day to day life in the Dojo is pretty relaxed. As mentioned, we have an algorithms session at 9 AM, sometimes a lecture on the current topic on the Learning Platform, and then you're free to work for the rest of the day. Lunch can be taken whenever, or bought from the "First Call"-playing food truck that stops by every day at 11:30 AM. Later in the afternoon, there is a remedial algorithms session for those who didn't understand the morning's session, and sometimes another demo of an optional framework or topic like Bootstrap.

Right now, we are in the middle of "catch-up", where we're free to get ahead on the platform or go back and review content that we maybe haven't fully understood or are confident in. Hopefully we can get back to our regularly scheduled content tomorrow? but there seems to be an instructor retreat for the next two days, so what the schedule will be is yet to be determined.

Here's to the next 13 weeks!