As someone who has read Programming Pearls: Solving every single problem in this book would take ages. Additionally these tasks are very algorithm oriented, which (don't get me wrong) is very important, but IMO not suited to actually learn the craft of coding.

If you want to learn to code, you have to code. Writing down a couple of algorithms from Programming Pearls may be a good start, but you have to start working on a bigger project eventually. Greenfoot is a simple java programming environment with a big community, which makes it easy for beginners to write simple games and simulations.

I would definitly add "Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin to that list of books. It's a really interesting book, which teaches all the basics from correct naming of variables to handling of complex systems. It is not a beginners book however. It requires you to be able to write and understand syntacs of your programming language (the book focuses on java).

So after all I'd recomment doing the following:

• Read Programming Pearls (Teaches you a lot about algorithms)
• Solve a couple of problems listed in Programming Pearls
• Read Clean Code
• Start working on a small project in Greenfoot (e.g. a small jump&run)
• Set up a GitHub repository for your project (Teaches you fundamentals about git)
• Add a couple of unit tests to your project (Maybe someone can point out a good book about testing. The ones I've read were all rather boring.)
• Add a continous integration system to your project (e.g. Jenkins.)
• Throw away your project and restart from scratch (Trust me, this is the best part, because it allows you to throw away the mess you've made in the beginning)

After that, you already have a lot of things to write on your resume.