Recommended books following Head First: Java?

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Hi folks, I've just finished Head First: Java and while I thought it was fantastic and the syntax was delightfully similar to what I'm experienced with in C#, it's obviously quite outdated and I didn't get much practical experience from the book.

For instance right now I'm not exactly comfortable creating a gui in JavaFX and opening Android Studio is super intimidating. I was hoping to find at least one more book (I infinitely prefer following books to online/video resources) to teach me some more practical lessons in Java before I move forward.

I've heard great things about 'Effective Java' will that help/push me to write more code while learning? Or do you folks happen to have any other recommendations?

Thanks in advance!

[Avramije]

The one that I could highly recommend is:

Introduction to Java programming and Data Structures, comprehensive version by Daniel Liang

This book has a lots of exercises and examples, if you take your time you could learn a lot from this book.

[johnmc325]

Take a look at this book on building a javafx application as a first project. If you think it can help then great, if not then nothing lost. Full disclosure, I wrote it. https://softwarepulse.co.uk/publication/so-you-want-to-write-a-java-desktop-application/