How relevant is learning Java from the book Learning Java by Cathy Sierra and Bert Bates?

Question

Java

Guys, I decided to learn Java as the first programming language (they say that people choose programming languages ​​themselves, it seems to me otherwise), to achieve this goal, they advised me the book Learning Java (Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates) and the Internet resource javarush (this is not advertising), and so the book is written for JAVA 5.0, and on a court yard 8.0! How long will it take for me to relearn? Perhaps you know a better book? Or can you recommend something else?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Java 12 is in the yard, it will be released in a week. Java has full backward compatibility, even books on Java 1.2 are relevant. And for a beginner, there is nothing better than the Head First series of tutorials.

Answer 2

Take any book and use it purely as a reference.
For practice, go through tasks from the Euler project .
Read the chapter and try to solve the problem within the framework of the knowledge gained. And you will fill your hand, and you will tighten the mathematics, and you will go through the algorithms.
UPD. As stated above, Java is backward compatible. In the course of writing the code, one way or another, you will come across documentation, from where you will pull up knowledge about new versions. And for the base, choose a book that has more coverage, without looking at the version in question.