Another threat facing the coding bootcamp world is the fact that many tech recruiters are still skeptical of bootcamp graduates.

Fullstack Academy was named Best Coding Bootcamp of 2015 by SkilledUp.com.

Ms Al-Jaser was lucky enough to benefit from a pilot course at the country's first coding bootcamp run by a Kuwaiti business called Coded.

But it is a coding bootcamp, where adults who want to change careers pay £8,000 for a three-month crash course that promises to equip them for jobs in a digital world.

So they decided to learn, and having expected a Google search to bring up numerous options, they were shocked to find that the only suitable coding bootcamp in the Arab-speaking Middle East was in Lebanon.