Yemeni student who fled civil war excels in computer programming while learning English Fresno Bee 3/4/2021 By Carmen George, The Fresno Bee SELMA, Calif. - Amal Qasem pulls up a mathematics app on her phone that she programmed then displays the computer coding that went into its creation - a sequence of data that resembles a line of colorful puzzle pieces linked together. She understands this complicated computer conversation in cyberspace exceptionally well although she's just 15 years old and still learning to speak English. Amal finished making her app - which earned a perfect score in her computer science elective class at Abraham Lincoln Middle School in Selma - days before her peers.