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The Library is excited to introduce new events and activities this semester, in addition to our traditional Student Fan Favorite, the end of semester EXAM CRAM! Make it! Hump Day-Fun Day November 20 th Noon-1:00 pm ALB 103A Paper Crafts with Old Books – Turkeys, Feathers, Bookmarks Play it! – Play Classic Video Games – 1990s November 21 st 5:00-8:00 pm ALB 107 Earthworm Jim 2, Sega Genesis (1995) Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sega Genesis (1992) Earthbound, SNES (1994) Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, SNES (1995) Saturn Bomber Man, Sega Saturn (1997) Crash Bandicoot, PS1 (1996) Spyro the Dragon, PS1 (1998) Tomb Raider, PS1 (1996) Super Mario 64, N64 (1996) Mario Party 2, N64 (1999) GoldenEye 007, N64 (1997) Crazy Taxi, Sega Dreamcast (1999) Bust it! – EXAM CRAM December 16 th 6:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. ALB Lobby Bust out good grades and destress! Free...

Coders:  The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World By Clive Thompson Call Number:  QA 76.6 .T4496 2019 Review from Nature Publisher's Description :   Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that interrogates who they are, how they think, what qualifies as greatness in their world, and what should give us pause. They are the most quietly influential people on the planet, and  Coders  shines a light on their culture. In pop culture and media, the people who create the code that rules our world are regularly portrayed in hackneyed, simplified terms, as ciphers in hoodies. Thompson goes far deeper, dramatiz...