[nwhitehead]

Once you've got pseudorandom bits working, the next step is generating variates from different distributions. Luc Devroye has a nice book on this freely available online, "Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation". http://luc.devroye.org/rnbookindex.html

[tel]

This book deserves lots of recommendations. Luc Devroye does generally, as well.