Richard Blackwood wrote: > Hello all. I have a few questions about simulation programming. One, do > all programmers know to how to code a simulation? By simulation I mean a > model of real world relationships (i.e. like Civilization which is a > simulation of ruling nations through various historical settings). For > example, could someone who codes word processing application necessarily > know how to do a simulation of economic relationships between banks and > enterprises if he/she had access to an economist? Is the skill of being > able to translate in one's head realworld relationships into a model > represented by code an inherent/native skill of all programmers? Two, is > Python a good language for simulation programming? >
The 2nd question is easy: python is excellent for your purpose, you'll find lots of examples googleing for "python discrete event simulation", http://simpy.sourceforge.net/ libs for linear algebra, statistics /probability / sampling, OR algorithms, (both native libs and hooks to C/Fortran libs like GSL, LAPACK etc. The 1st question is open-ended, it's kind of like asking are mathematicians good at music by disposition on average? (or something like that) When you're modeling a knowledge domain with a developer who doesn't master the details of the domain, you have to have incredible specifications and testing, at all levels of the model > Thank you all! > > - Richard Blackwood -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
