Real World Instrumentation with Python

Suggested Reading

If you’re interested in digging deeper into simulation, the following books are good places to start:

Simulation Modeling Handbook: A Practical Approach. Christopher Chung (ed.), CRC Press, 2003.

A collection of papers and essays on simulation topics with a focus on practical applications rather than on theoretical issues. Provides step-by-step procedures and covers problem analysis, model development, and data analysis.

Software Fault Injection: Inoculating Programs Against Errors. J. Voas and G. McGraw, John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

One of the first books to deal with the subject of fault injection in depth. Although oriented toward high-end safety-critical and fault-tolerant systems, the techniques and concepts in this book can be applied to any software development project.

Gnuplot in Action. Philipp K. Janert, Manning Publications, 2009.

A thorough review of gnuplot, along with a wealth of ideas for how to use it to create useful and interesting data visualization displays.

There are also some general resources available on the Web, although there seems to be very little in the way of introductory material available. Here are a few URLs that may be of interest to you:

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hp/simulation.pdf

This link points to the PDF version of Computer Simulation Techniques: The Definitive Introduction!, by Harry Perros. While not quite as broad in scope as the title might suggest, this book introduces traditional Operational Research (OR)–type simulations and contains ...