Rockers Under 18: Edition 2 Featuring Ujjwal Gupta

In the previous edition of Rockers Under 18, we had featured Daksh Dak, who is a writer and podcaster.

Today we are featuring Ujjwal, programmer, and founder of the 10thies. In today’s edition, we are presenting his journey from a normal academic-focused student to a programmer.

But who is Ujjwal? Let's talk about him in brief. He is a 16-year-old kid from Uttar Pradesh. He learn Coding during pandemics and made some interesting projects. Also, he has a youtube channel which name is UG THE SEP. Where he upload the tutorials related to programming. Also, he is the founder of the 10thies. We will go through all the things.

You might be having a question, How did he learn to program?

When he came to know about HTML from academics. Then he brings curiosity, that what are other programming languages. Then he searched on the internet and got the answer to the question.

After that, he knows that He has to start with C language. He learns the basics from one of the best youtube channels. But what to do next. Then he came to know about something interesting in the C language, on which he can make some cool projects.

So he started making projects with the graphic library. He almost makes 2-3 projects. During this, his friend said that you should make videos and upload them on youtube, which will help other people. If you want to check out his youtube channel, click here.

Consistency is a very important thing in life, at any point in time you can leave the doing that task. So be consistently doing those things, you will get a result in one day.

So for that, he started a 30-days coding challenge. And according to him 30-days change helps him a lot. And he also said that after this challenge he got will power to code every day and stay consistent.

After learning C, he started thinking about what to learn next, so he came to know about Web Development and App Development. During App Development, he was facing issues with hardware but he didn't lose the motivation and continued learning things.

As we said before, He is the founder of the 10thies. I think you might be thinking about what is 10thies are. Let's talk about this. During studying academics, he was in trouble finding resources as well as a practice platform. So, he got the idea of building something which can solve these problems. So he started the 10thies. During building these he found other two co-founders, Aryan Singh and Mrigank Singh. Currently, 10thies is under development, but a beta version is launched.

In the coming months, 10thies will add more resources and MCQs for students who want to test themself before the 10 boards exam.

In today's world, we have lots of things to do. Let's take an example. If we have completed the basics of web development. Then there are lots of things we can do and learn. So, according to Ujjwal, everyone should try everything, Who knows, when you will fall in love with doing that thing.

Sometimes we are stuck in the tutorial hell, and that's why Ujjwal says that while learning we should make the projects. So we can test ourselves and gain the motivation for that.

He built many projects like Paint Software, Typing Master, AI integrated Tic-Tac-Toe, Multi Text Editor. You can find this all project on his Github. Also, he has his blog. For reading the insightful articles click here.

After a pandemic, everyone's life is changed in some manner. And ujjwal life is also changed because of a pandemic. Before the pandemic he was academic-focused. Like, Study > Eat > Repeat. But during the pandemic, he started programming, and according to himself, it was the best thing to happen with him pandemic. And he also says that you can solve any problem by programming.

In today's world, everyone is talking about reading books, so when we ask the book which he likes most? The answer was "How to win friends and influence people"

According to himself while reading this book he learns that while you are talking with someone, try to listen more than speak. And also when you are talking with a person, try to talk about the topic in which they are interested, not in which you are interested.

In today's world resources are uncountable, that's why sometimes we might feel confusing where to learn. So According to Ujjwal for videos, you can learn from Code With Harry and MySirG.com, and for reading, you can use stack overflow.

Okay, but what lessons we can learn from him?

• Try to stay consistent
• Try everything until you love one thing
• Try your knowledge on making projects
• Try to give your knowledge to other
• Try to avoid making excuses

If you like the interview, then please share your feedback and suggest something to us which we can improve in the next editions :)