Interesting Computational Tools:

• Python is an outstanding tool for doing a variety of jobs in scientific programming. However, the documentation of many useful Python packages is scattered across the internet and in many cases is not useful to the beginner. I am putting together some notes on the scientific use of Python for my own benefit. In the hope that it may be useful to others, It is available in html and pdf forms.
• Go is a computer language from Google with deep roots in the original Unix development effort at Bell Labs. It is basically the C language as it would have been developed today, given current wisdom coupled with the Unix philosophy of simplicity and economy of expression. Here are some (currently incomplete, but growing) notes on its use in a scientific context. The language is well worth your attention.
• Candis is a collection of programs written in C, Python, and Go, to analyze and display atmospheric science data. This compiles and installs readily on any Linux system and can be installed on Mac OS X. (Sorry, not on Windows!)
• Gri is a graphics package written by Dan Kelley of Dalhousie University. We use Gri directly and with a Candis routine called goplot. The source code is available at GitHub.
• Source code for our cloud-resolving model, version entropy-030, as described here is available. This is written in C and requires the Candis library (see above).
• Have you tried Sisal? Sisal is a functional language created especially for numerical modeling. The language has been near death for a number of years, but resuscitation is currently underway. The source code for the compiler is written in C.
• Here is documentation for the print spooling system LPRng.