{"id":2836,"date":"2022-07-12T07:32:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T07:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codebrave.org\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2024-02-07T13:37:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:37:05","slug":"from-playing-games-to-building-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codebrave.org\/from-playing-games-to-building-them\/","title":{"rendered":"From playing games to building them"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>From playing games to building them<\/h1>\n<h1>Published on 12\/07\/2022<\/h1>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was really proud\u2026I felt like I had created something bigger!\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meet Omran, a residential student at Dar Al Awlad<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"From playing games to creating them\" width=\"848\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ptMevITC50?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omran is a 17-year old living with his brother in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kidsalivelebanon\/\">Dar Al Awlad<\/a>, a shelter near Beirut alongside 20 other children who don\u2019t have families to live with. He has always been passionate about video games.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I spent so much time watching the behind-the-scenes of video games. It\u2019s really stunning!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Omran found out that coding is behind it all, he really wanted to learn how to do it. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>From playing games to building them<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When CodeBrave teacher Hani started running our SuperCoder coding classes at the shelter, Omran jumped at the chance. He\u2019s now gone from playing games to building them. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe thing I\u2019ve done in coding I was really proud of was a program that detects if a number was even or odd. It was simple but I was proud of it. I felt like I had created something bigger!\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omran is also learning to build websites using coding languages like HTML and Python.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe last project we did [this school year] was how to make a one-page website using HTML. I\u2019m pretty excited [about learning to create our own websites]. I want to make one for my school. That\u2019ll be nice!\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>More about our project at Dar Al Awlad<\/h3>\n<p>CodeBrave started giving coding and robotics classes on a weekly basis at Dar Al Awlad at the end of 2021. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/codebrave.org\/projects\/dar-el-awlad\/\">here<\/a> to learn more about our work there.<\/p>\n<p>If you are moved to contribute to our charity in Lebanon, please head over <a href=\"http:\/\/codebrave.org\/#donate\">here<\/a>. You can also donate old digital devices, tech in-kind services as well as your time to help CodeBrave Lebanon power Lebanon&#8217;s next generation with tech skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Omran who went from playing games to building them when we started coding classes with CodeBrave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>From playing games to building them - CodeBrave<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Meet Omran who went from playing games to building them when we started coding classes with CodeBrave Lebanon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/codebrave.org\/from-playing-games-to-building-them\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From playing games to building them - 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