Department of Engineering Design, Indian Institute of Technology Madras 
                                 
                                                   
                       
                       
                      Programming, Computing and Graphics using Python 
                       
                      Credit (Under New Credit System) –   
                       
                          L                T                 E                   P                    O                   C                    TH 
                          3                                                      3                    6                   12                    
                       
                       
                      Objectives:  
                      The course will introduce the various aspects of Python programming and basics of computing using 
                      NumPy and graphics using PyOpenGL. The course assumes that a student is already familiar with one 
                      programming language (such as C) and basics of open graphics library (OpenGL).  
                       
                      Course Contents: 
                      Brief introduction to python and its basics, Strings, Control flow instructions, Console input/output. 
                       
                      Lists, Tuples, Sets and Dictionaries – Basics, Accessing, Methods/Operations, Comprehension 
                       
                      Functions, Modules, Classes and objects, Operator Overloading, Iterators/generators, Inheritance, 
                      Exception Handling. 
                       
                      File input/output, Bitwise operators, Inner Functions, Decorators. 
                       
                      Introduction to NumPy library. 
                       
                      Legacy OpenGL and Introduction to Modern OpenGL programming in Python. 
                       
                       
                      Text Books: 
                      1)         Let us Python, Yashavant Kanetkar and Aditya Kanetkar, First Edition, 2019, BPB Publications 
                      2)         OpenGL Programming Guide / Redbook, John Kessenich, Graham Sellers, and Dave Shreiner, 
                      Ninth Edition, 2016, Addison-Wesley Professional 
                       
                       
                       Reference Books: 
                      1)         Learn Python 3 the Hard Way, Zed A. Shaw, First Edition, 2018, Pearson Education Inc. 
                      2)         https://www.python.org 
                      3)         http://docs.gl 
                      4)         https://pypi.org/project/PyOpenGL/ 
                      5)         https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyOpenGL 
                      6)         http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/ 
                      7)         https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/specs/es/2.0/GLSL_ES_Specification_1.00.pdf 
                      8)         OpenGL Redbook available at https://www.glprogramming.com/red/ (for Legacy OpenGL) 
                      9)         For Modern OpenGL, documentation available at https://www.opengl.org/documentation/ 
                      10)        https://www.w3schools.com/python/numpy_intro.asp