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The best thing you can do for your future programming career today is:

Find an accountablibuddy!

Learning programming will work better when you are accountable to others! After this meeting, you should hook up with others to continue your study. Don't be shy! By having an accountablibuddy, you will get father.

Local Resources

• Obviously *.rb is a great one :) Next meetup for *.rb is on Tuesday the 28th. This would be good for newbies to come to; the next one is more of a HH than talks.
• PyLadies meetups and would encourage women to go to the talk nights (which are not usually python specific).
• Lesbians Who Tech is a great one (open to all queer women and allies)--they don't do meetup.com events but have an email list and Facebook group for Seattle.
• Seattle Women Who Code meet ups I've been to, as well as
• Girl Develop It's Sunday study sessions.

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Instructor Position Open

About Ada Developers Academy

Ada Developers Academy is a new kind of school just for women: six months of intensive training in the Ruby on Rails stack, followed by six months of internship at a local tech company. Students are guided through the intensive 24-week course from the ground up: Databases/SQL, Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, HTML/CSS, JavaScript. They’ll be expected to complete both exercises and full-scale prototype applications and will be assessed regularly via quizzes and pair programming exercises.

Instructor

We’re looking for an Instructor to assist in curriculum creation, teach in-class lessons, and provide oversight for the inaugural class of Ada Developers Academy. You'll be working alongside others to make this program great.

Skills/Qualifications

You should be passionate about teaching and excited to take part in directly addressing the gender imbalance in software. You should be very comfortable programming in Ruby and have advanced knowledge of Ruby on th

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$basket = []  
$money = 70

def money_check
  if $money < 0
    dead("Guard attacks! You spent more money than you had!")
  else  
    puts "Nice, still on budget!"
  end
end    

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#Finding Optimal Inventory

Inventory is scary. Why risk capital? In fact, money can be saved with inventory planning. Below is a simplified example of optimizing inventory and reducing costs.

##Example:

I sell Star Wars posters. Last year, I sold 1000. I ordered batches of 100.

• Cost each: $10
• Printing: $500

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def roman_generator
  while true
  
  puts  
  puts "What's the number you'd like as an old-school Roman numeral?"
  
  reply = gets.chomp
  
  if reply != "close" 
    reply = reply.to_i

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def waryear 
  1914 + (rand(32))
end  

hard_hearing = "OH, THAT'S NICE. DID I EVER TELL YOU ABOUT THAT TIME IN THE WAR IN #{waryear}?"
cant_hear = "HUH? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" 

puts "COME SIT DOWN NEXT TO GRANDPA. HOW ARE YA?"

while true