In the reading “Objects of Our Affection: How Object Orientation Made Computers a Medium,” the author wrote about the development of object orientation in tech culture and discussed how computers have evolved from coding to being a medium. According to Alt, “the whole point of OPP is not to have to worry about what is inside an object. Objects made on different machines and with different languages should be able to talk to each other.” In order to allow the objects to talk to each other, there should be a medium that conveys the messages and “opens the possibility of movement within the code,” which the author argued is a computer.

For me, I think object-oriented programming made computation more organized and efficient. It allows us to work on a big and complex programs more efficiently; moreover, I think object-oriented programming changed the way people think about coding. As I’m not a coding expert, I always feel overwhelmed when looking at lines of code. Object-oriented programming made it clear to me when each object is declared, how the behavior is defined, and when it is called in a function. Since object-oriented programming focuses on organizing the code into objects and build from the bottom up, the idea is more like a communication within the code, passing and moving objects around. Looking at computers as a medium, what I found from the reading is not only about how object-oriented programming changed computation but also the future of computers. Apart from being a medium for object and object, object and program, program and humans, what else could computers bring together?