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Coding Your Future: A Guidebook for Students

30 Nadine’s Story

Meet Nadine Abdelhalim, see figure 32.1 she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 2023 when this episode was first recorded. During her degree, Nadine worked at imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk (see figure 30.2) and arm.com.

Shortly after this interview was recorded she enrolled on an MSc in Advanced Computing at Imperial College London.

Nadine Abdelhalim. Picture reused from linkedin.com/in/nadineabdelhalim with permission, thanks Nadine.

Figure 30.1: Nadine Abdelhalim. Picture reused from linkedin.com/in/nadineabdelhalim with permission, thanks Nadine.

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.

30.1 What’s Your Story Nadine?

An edited podcast transcript will appear here in due course. In the meantime, an un-edited, raw machine-generated transcript can be found here.

Imago is the University of Manchester’s student software company. They create beautiful and useful software for paying clients, using the skills and experience students have gained during their time at University. Screenshot of the company website from imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk

Figure 30.2: Imago is the University of Manchester’s student software company. They create beautiful and useful software for paying clients, using the skills and experience students have gained during their time at University. Screenshot of the company website from imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk

30.2 One Tune

For her music, Nadine chose I Lived by OneRepublic, see figure 30.3

I Lived is a song recorded by American pop rock band OneRepublic. Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org

Figure 30.3: I Lived is a song recorded by American pop rock band OneRepublic. Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org

30.3 One Podcast

For her podcast, Nadine chose Rotten Mango, see section 36.6

30.4 One Book

For her book, Nadine chose Invisible by James Patterson, see figure 30.4

Invisible is a novel written by James Patterson and David Ellis. It is part of the series Invisible and it is followed by the book Unsolved published in 2019. Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org

Figure 30.4: Invisible is a novel written by James Patterson and David Ellis. It is part of the series Invisible and it is followed by the book Unsolved published in 2019. Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org

30.5 One Film

For her film, Nadine chose On the Basis of Sex, see figure 30.5

On the Basis of Sex is a 2018 American biographical legal drama film based on the life and early cases of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was the second woman to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Directed by Mimi Leder and written by Daniel Stiepleman (Ginsburg’s real-life nephew), it stars Felicity Jones as Ginsburg. Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Jack Reynor, Cailee Spaeny, Sam Waterston, and Kathy Bates feature in supporting roles. Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org 🇺🇸

Figure 30.5: On the Basis of Sex is a 2018 American biographical legal drama film based on the life and early cases of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was the second woman to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Directed by Mimi Leder and written by Daniel Stiepleman (Ginsburg’s real-life nephew), it stars Felicity Jones as Ginsburg. Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Jack Reynor, Cailee Spaeny, Sam Waterston, and Kathy Bates feature in supporting roles. Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org 🇺🇸

30.6 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).