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Apr 2020
31m 53s

Coding Tutorials Can Be A Real Drag

The Stack Overflow Podcast
About this episode
I asked Anna to describe herself in her own words. "Anna Lytical is a drag queen and engineer who creates sickeningly entertaining and educational coding tutorials in order to engage more LGBTQ+ people with coding and the tech industry. Anna shows how to use technology to represent yourself through various projects like websites, Instagram filters, glamorous ... Show More
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