Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C ( in Python? )

Python is a great language, but Computer Graphics are heavy and need performance. Because of this, commonly people use C or C++ in games. At most, C# and Java. XNA, for example, is a framework for C# that allows the user to make 3D games, but internally it has a lot of code written in C++.

Python is reserved for scripts, but the core engines are commonly made in C or C++. Panda 3D, for example, allows you to make games in Python. But internally, it uses C++.

But you CAN make basic Computer Graphics with Python, if it's for learning purposes. There is a Python binding to OpenGL. If the book uses OpenGL for making the graphics, you can use Python without a lot of effort.

But I think it's worth to learn C or C++ and learn how computer graphics works, given everything I explained.

Python is fine for learning computer graphics, maths and matrix operations with numpy work internally in C and are just as fast as c. There are bindings to openGL and opencv

The book "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C" is out of date when it comes to the actual code - although most of the basic principles are the same. If this is the set text for a course I would worry about how "in touch" the lecturer is

Thanks for the inputs! Let us say for discussion that I know C++ fairly well. Our school uses this book "Computer Graphics with OpenGL , but I afraid that the teachers are "dumbing" the subject down. Half of the class knows programming, calculus, linear algebra etc, but the other half is a "multimedia" class with no such experience and we shall use the same course material.

I guess I am after a solid book on Computer Graphics with the possibility to experiment and program the concepts at the same time.