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Coding Your Future: A Guidebook for Students

22 Asma’s Story

Meet Asma Alshebli, shown in figure 22.1. Asma graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Artificial Intelligence in 2024. During her study, she did an internship at Abu Dhabi Ports Group and served as Hackathon Director for UNICS: the University of Manchester Computer Science society (unicsmcr.com) and volunteered for the Emirati society. 🇦🇪

Asma Alshebli linkedin.com/in/asma-alshebli-86a13a264. Picture re-used from LinkedIn with permission, thanks Asma.

Figure 22.1: Asma Alshebli linkedin.com/in/asma-alshebli-86a13a264. Picture re-used from LinkedIn with permission, thanks Asma.

Listen to the episode by clicking Play ▶️ below, or subscribing wherever you get your podcasts, see section 21.2. An annotated and edited transcript of the audio is shown below.

22.1 What’s Your Story Asma?

An edited podcast transcript will appear here in due course. In the meantime highlights from One Tune, One Book, One Podcast and One Film and some show notes can be seen below.

22.2 One Film

For her film Asma chose About Time, see figure 22.2.

What if every moment in life came with a second chance? About Time is a 2013 romantic science fiction comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Curtis, and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy. The film is about a young man with the ability to time travel who tries to change his past in hopes of improving his future. Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org adapted using the Wikipedia app apple.co/3LNVzWu ⏱

Figure 22.2: What if every moment in life came with a second chance? About Time is a 2013 romantic science fiction comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Curtis, and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy. The film is about a young man with the ability to time travel who tries to change his past in hopes of improving his future. Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org adapted using the Wikipedia app apple.co/3LNVzWu ⏱

22.3 One Book

For her book, Asma chose The Book Thief, see figure 22.3.

The Book Thief is a historical fiction novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, set in Nazi Germany during World War II. Published in 2005, The Book Thief became an international bestseller and was translated into 63 languages and sold 17 million copies. (Zusak 2005) Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org adapted using the Wikipedia app apple.co/3LNVzWu 📚

Figure 22.3: The Book Thief is a historical fiction novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, set in Nazi Germany during World War II. Published in 2005, The Book Thief became an international bestseller and was translated into 63 languages and sold 17 million copies. (Zusak 2005) Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org adapted using the Wikipedia app apple.co/3LNVzWu 📚

22.4 Studio Selfie

Asma shared this studio selfie, see figure 22.4

A Coding Your Future studio selfie, a slightly noisier location than normal. I’m hiding behind Asma because I had an ugly black eye which I’d picked up from one of those vertical steel girders they have in the middle (yes, the middle!) of the walkways of the Alan Turing Building. Thank you architects! 🤕

Figure 22.4: A Coding Your Future studio selfie, a slightly noisier location than normal. I’m hiding behind Asma because I had an ugly black eye which I’d picked up from one of those vertical steel girders they have in the middle (yes, the middle!) of the walkways of the Alan Turing Building. Thank you architects! 🤕

22.5 Graduation

22.6 Disclaimer

⚠️ Coding Caution ⚠️

Please note these transcripts are generated with speech to text software and are not perfect word-for-word transcriptions. Some speech disfluency has been manually removed and links, cross references and pictures have been manually added for clarification. Extra (non-quoted) words are given in brackets like this: (some text added afterwards).