Aristotle and object-oriented programming: why modern students need traditional logic

Authors:
Derek Rayside;Gerard T. Campbell
Affiliations:
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada;Department of Philosophy, St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the thirty-first SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
2000

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Abstract

Classifying is a central activity in object-oriented programming and distinguishes it from procedural programming. Traditional logic, initiated by Aristotle, assigns classification to our first activity in reasoning, whereby we come to know what a thing is. Such a grasp of the thing's whatness is the foundation for all further reasoning about it.This connection between Aristotle's way of classifying and object-oriented programming is sometimes acknowledged, but rarely explored in depth.1 We explore this relation more closely and more carefully, in the hope that a better understanding of classification and programming can be gained from a study of philosophy than from many current text books on object-oriented programming.