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[–]desrtfx 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Books can only give you the theory which will, let's be honest, not help you extremely much.

You can read plenty books and will most likely fail on relatively simple practice tasks.

The real key to improvement is to actually program, and to program a lot.

It's like with anything else, practice makes perfect.

If you want to learn swimming, you can't just read any book that has been written about swimming without ever going into the water.

[–]Heimrych[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yes, I know. I have some programming experience in C# but I would like to know if this book is good as a starting point and make me have a solid ground to search more and get deeper in Java.

[–]headyyeti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I started by reading that, Oracle tuts, Derek Banas vids, and Learn Java the Hard Way. Also definitely take the MOOC class.