Sandeep Ramgolam, a passionate developer and community driver in Mauritius
In this 3rd episode of the podcast World Web Stories, Sandeep talk about his daily job as a Front-End developer and describe the community of developers living in Mauritius. Takeaways: Don't rush in learning how to use frameworks, learn your basics first! Mauritius is a beautiful island! You can't be good at everything, you must choose what interests you the most. Transcript David Dias : 00:00:00 Today I have the great pleasure to be with Sandeep from Moriches for another episode of the podcast, world stories. Welcome Sandeep. Sandeep Ramgolam : 00:00:20 Hi David, how are you doing? David Dias : 00:00:22 How are you doing? Sandeep Ramgolam : 00:00:24 I'm fine. It's just a bit tortilla and gracious. About one of the everything's good. David Dias : 00:00:29 So just for people that may not know, where is marshes, can you tell us where it's located? Sandeep Ramgolam : 00:00:35 Yeah, it's a small island in the middle of the Indian ocean. So you might know where Madagascar is. It's just a little south, east of Madagascar. David Dias : 00:00:46 Nice. Cool. So what do you do in life Sandeep, tell us a little bit more about. Sandeep Ramgolam : 00:00:54 So I'm a front end developer. That's my job. But apart from that I still could for fun. But apart from that as well, I guess I like to hike, play some, sports, stuff like that. David Dias : 00:01:10 Do you have like places in marshes where you can go for. Sandeep Ramgolam : 00:01:16 Yeah, plenty. And that's been my hobby for the past two to three years or so, which has been going everywhere, everywhere I can around the island and trying to like discover places that are right here. David Dias : 00:01:32 Nice. Nice. So I'm curious. Do you remember when you started coding when, when he was. Sandeep Ramgolam : 00:01:42 Yeah. That's a long time. So we are now in 2021. So I guess I started coding when I was informed too. That would be in 2012. David Dias : 00:01:59 How many years old you were at the time? Sandeep Ramgolam : 00:02:01 No, not 2012. That would be 2002, I guess, Southern, too. That's a long time. So I guess I was, I was 12 back then and we picked up like those computer classes. So in emotions we have like 4, 1, 2, 3 and inform one. That's where you get to start your computer glasses. That's when you are on 11 and in form one, you just do the people stuff like "what is a mouse?" "what is a keyboard?" You don't actually play with the computer. David Dias : 00:02:42 Oh, so you guys write on paper? Sandeep Ramgolam : 00:02:45 Yeah. Yeah, yeah. "So what is an input device?" What is a like, stuff like that? So that was kind of boring, but the next year you get to actually play with computers and learn a programming language. That's when I got started into programming. So I think the first language was basic. David Dias : 00:03:07 So I, I imagine that like your colleagues or like other, other people in your class, they, they did the same course, but they may not have been as interested as you were like, do you know what, what do you remember? What motivated you to like continue like doing more and not taking that class. Sandeep Ramgolam : 00:03:32 I think the main thing was that I thought it was fun. And mainly because we got to go into the computer room and play games between the programming lessons would sit at the back and play when the teacher was at looking. So that was kind of motivating, but. I guess I stayed for the fun of actually programming. David Dias : 00:04:01 So since, since the beginning coding for you was something fun. And I imagine that's still the case today. Sandeep Ramgolam : 00:04:10 Yeah, very much. That's my main with division. I wouldn't do it otherwise. David Dias : 00:04:16 Nice. So, so you, you went to school how, like. Did you like after school, did you do any university or something like that? When did you start working as a front end developer? Professionally? Can you tell us a little bit more about that story