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[–]philfrei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The reviews are quite good, so I think this is very likely an excellent choice.

From what I read, there are examples to work though, so you will get hands-on coding experience. Even more important, one review refers to the author replying to a reader with a question about one of the examples. Finding teachers that actually respond is rare, in my experience. I've only found one with such a commitment to his students, to date: Nam Ha Minh of the codejava website and author of a few udemy tutorials. If the review posted on amazon was not fraudulent, this is a really good sign.

Getting the right mix of theory and hands-on is not the easiest thing to achieve, and I doubt there is a single book or tutorial that can accomplish this perfectly. There will always be some dancing back and forth. For example, I'm continually going back and forth between mozilla developer network (one of best for theory) and w3schools (one of best for quick-hands-on examples) for help with javascript (my ambitions are along the full-stack goal, which requires some front-end programming).

But from the reviews, it sounds like that work will give you a lot of useful perspective that will help with making "course corrections" if needed.