This is what I'm into, so I thought maybe someone in the hood might be interested as well. It's a very easy to understand tutorial on how to write code to implement a discrete event simulator. Discrete event simulation is used ubiquitously in several industries, such as food processing, automobile manufacturing, material handling, warehousing, and silicon wafer fabrication, the last of which I am currently doing a project in. The main purpose is optimization, but it's rapidly extending into process visualisation, and even control. Most of the simulation packages, such as the one I work for, are in the tens of thousands of dollars range, so they aren't something you can bring home from the store and play with, but this is a good tutorial to let you make your own and get the jist of how they work if you plan on going into one of those industries, or are just interested. Also, www.flexsim.com is the web sight of the company I work for, and you can download an evaluation version of the robust software there. I'm sure there are other evaluation versions you can download as well, but I don't know all of them, so you'll have to look for them yourself.
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