Why DecodeVector?

Why I decided to spent my evenings on solving MATHS?

Pranjal Jain
3 min readMar 28, 2018

Anything which comes to me and which is of my interest I want to grab that. It is not fear of missing out (FOMO) but rather the curiosity in me which keeps me awake to explore new territories. As I am learning the nuances of design and trying to implement in the tech world. Design without computational thinking does not have much value. That’s why I am into DecodeVector.

Computational thinking is made up of four parts:

  • Decomposition.
  • Pattern recognition.
  • Pattern generalisation and abstraction.
  • Algorithm design.

As a Designer, we should be able to code as well. We are good at designing interfaces and beautiful screens based on research but IS THAT SUFFICIENT?

IS THAT SUFFICIENT?

I still don’t know.

Design + Coding = Computational Design

If someone wants to know more about Computational Design then, you may refer to Design in Tech Report 2018 and the image which have inserted above.

I am still at the nascent stage of design, I need to improve a lot. I am back to studies and it is the right time to add skills and capabilities. And also rectify the mistake of cramming up the things.

Thanks to haritha pitla who asked me whether I want to learn maths or not. And guess who is our facilitator in this endeavour of learning maths & code, my tutor Gaurav Singh and my faculty Vineeta Rath. I can bet anyone, this is the rare and most motivational space, I could be in. Why? Have you heard anywhere, faculty and student are studying and solving together?

DecodeVector is not the class. It is a space where you open up your minds’ old neurons which makes you think and question — “Why it is like this?” or
“What are the other ways to look at?”.

This is the space where even the weakest is also taken care and together we build the healthy competitive environment where everyone grows learn and become capable of applying logic into code.

My Goals and DecodeVector might have a different alignment. But I am happy to devote my time and energy into it. As I believe, I would love coding in the near future and will be able to question things. And also, I would be able to develop algorithms for the ideas I want to implement in the real world.

I now realise, if we want to question how algorithm works then we need to know, how it is built and then only we can question it existence and channelise it for better.

This journey started on 22nd January, 2018. And today is 28th March, 2018. Almost 3 months have gone.

This space demands 2–3 hours daily and this also sometimes take up time which should be given to other work and study but this is what I choose. I need to manage and I am doing it.

If anyone is interested to know what we do on daily basis then please follow Vineeta Rath blog.

For me DecodeVector is the cliff, I want to climb and I do not want to fall off the cliff without giving my 100%.

Yet to find the answers and still finding my love for MATHS or for Theoretical Computational Science as my tutor says.

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Pranjal Jain
Pranjal Jain

Written by Pranjal Jain

Design Researcher; Initiator of HCI4SouthAsia; Ex-chair of Srishti SIGCHI Chapter; Startup Community Enabler

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