Imagen de Portada
Código QR

Building Objects Out of Plato: Applying Philosophy, Symbolism, and Analogy to Software Design.

The author argues for the application of philosophy, literary textual analysis and analogy analysis to the designing of computer software. The article uses Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" and Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" as examples. The author constructs charts that link the symbols...

Descripción completa

Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 10; pp. 66 - 71
Autor principal: Giguette, Ray
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2006
Materias:
Computer programming
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
Computer software
Charts, diagrams, etc.
Symbolism
Signs & symbols
Analogy
Theory of knowledge
Reasoning
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
Sumario:The author argues for the application of philosophy, literary textual analysis and analogy analysis to the designing of computer software. The article uses Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" and Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" as examples. The author constructs charts that link the symbols of the various works of literature to "object-orientated terminology." The author argues that by attempting to determine what specific parts of software code symbolizes, greater understanding of the purpose of computer software may be ascertained.