For whatever reason, you feel the need to defend the value of your degree. You forget that people have various reasons (some personal) for seeking knowledge.

For whatever reason, you feel the need to defend the value of your degree. You forget that people have various reasons (some personal) for seeking knowledge. It's not always about gaining marketable skills or about learning all there is to know about a subject. Many of the points you make in your critique (lack of depth, etc) are obvious to anyone that decides to read the book. As an example, the book Learn Modern 3D Graphics Programming [1] has been posted and praised on HN in the past, but it should be obvious to anyone that there's a lot more to Computer Graphics than that book alone. I think your comments would be more valuable if you had something more positive to add, perhaps in addition to criticism. If this book glosses over some topics, perhaps you could suggest some learning resources for those topics. 1. http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/ http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/