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#New Year's Resolutions for the Burgeoning Self-Taught Female Hacker

Last January, I attended my first hackathon and commited to learning to code. Fast forward to May, and I landed my first full-time position as a Developer.

When people ask me how I did it, I always say that the most challenging aspect of a career transition is psychological. The technical learning can be done with elbow grease, but no career transition is possible without psychological fortitude.

Along the way, there will be self-doubt, hundreds of rejected job applications, cold recruiters, and days when you feel like your goal is too far beyond your reach. To this, I say: you can do it.

So in light of the new year, I've put together a non-prescriptive list to inspire your 2014 resolutions. If you are a burgeoning self-taught female hacker: you go, girl.

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#Instructions Every time there is an Over-the-Air or XE release, you will need to update your Glassware. Here are some steps that I documented to keep you up to speed and fix your broken application.

##Steps

1. Go to Android SDK manager and get the latest GDK version under
   • Android 4.0.3 (this might change in the future, so scan or search)
   • GDK Sneak Peak
   • Install
   • Accept
2. Make sure Android Studio is up to date

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/* The following is an example of flexible recursive column-width generation.
Keep in mind that it does not account for important attributes like padding and margin.
To use, simply set the $totalColumns variable to the number of columns you'd like,
and watch Sass compile the magic.
*/

$totalColumns: 12; // set this to your total number of columns
$i: 1; // start at 1 instead of 0 so that string interpolation on column names is intuitive

@while $i < $totalColumns + 1 {