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About This Keynote
In this keynote for CodeLand 2021, I tell the story of my journey as a coder and drag performer who is committed to making everyone feel that they belong in the tech industry. My goal with this talk is to reach early-career developers who might be doubting their own abilities and validity in this field. You can learn to code, become a software developer, and have a great time doing it!
Takeaways
- Combining your passion with code
- A beginner friendly data structures lesson
- One developer's path to success as an engineer and finding community in the tech space
Slides
🌈 After I present, please leave your thoughts, comments, and questions about my keynote in the comments below!
About Anna Lytical
Anna Lytical is a Developer Experience Engineer at Google and a coding drag performer who creates fun and educational coding content to engage a early-career developer audience on TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, and beyond.
This keynote will be presented as part of CodeLand 2021 on September 23. After the talk is streamed as part of the conference, it will be added to this post as a recorded video along with the slides.
Oldest comments (41)
OMG I am so excited for this talk! Anna Lytical is a freaking brilliant Drag Queen name!!!
This is one of the best explinations of coding concepts I've seen. This presentation is fire.
So glad you loved it!!!! I always bring the 🔥💜🔥
👏👏 You are fabulous!
Also that dress is amazing!
I couldn't have been more excited until the keynote speaker came on in drag! I had not looked ahead at the speakers and this was the greatest surprise to me
Just being my glamorous self 💁♀️👸💜
Thank you for your keynote, Anna!
I grew up at a time and place where programmers (potential mentors) where few and far between.
Finding coding opportunities were tough outside of college, so I felt like I had to go into a CS program. Still having a friendly community was very difficult to find and maintain connections to.
It's so great to know that there are more welcoming communities out there now.
👏'ing for you too!
The tech landscape is always evolving, just like the world, so I think there amount of communities and support is only increasing which is wonderful 💜💜
Nothing is impossible! For me it has always been about whether the effort is worth the outcome. :D
this talk is so exciting, fun, & colorful! brilliant. I'm living for this 🦄 😄
💜💜💜
The gloves are 😍 😍 😍 😍
I love the parallels you are drawing between coding and drag, brilliant!
That "impossible" dress was so freaking cool! I'm glad that folks are out there making the impossible happen. 🙌
All in all, this is just such a fun, awesome talk. Thanks so much, Anna!
Glad you had fun! 💜💜💜
This feels like a fun chat with a friend, not a stuffy slideshow 👏
A stuffy slideshow??? I would NEVER 💜
I love and appreciate so much Anna's explanations. My programming classes would have been so much easier to understand.
I think so many programming classes could be easier to understand 😫💜
My favorite talk of the day! Love the approachability of learning CS concepts through things we are familiar with in the real world. So so fun!
Yay! I'm glad you had fun, I had fun! 💜
Wow, I love your explanations! Thank you, this whole keynote was so relatable.
RelatableContent is my goal 💜💜
Hi Anna! I'm an aspiring developer who's LGBTQ. I'm wondering if you know of any explicitly queer online developer communities, initiatives, or open source projects?
Hi Jos! I don't have any that I know of unfortunately 🥺 I think there are a variety of organizations that do like LGBTQ+ tech meetups but I find the majority of those to be completely untechnical (which is great to increase the community, but I've found them to almost be less helpful for myself because then I'm like am I the only queer coder here??) Perhaps it will be something in my future to put together 👀 💜💜💜
Bummer, thanks for the response though! Might be worthwhile to try and cultivate some sort of community like that myself. Even if it's just a discord or slack channel?
@whatnotery you might find some connections from these sites ..
outintech.com/
lgbtstem.wordpress.com/
Thank you Anna Lytical! That was truly inspiring! :D
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