Is Bruce Eckel's book The Philosophy of Java suitable for learning PL from scratch?

Question

Java

I came across the opinion that it is best to study PL from books, because courses (video) can only teach superficially and then you still have to go through the material all over again.
I began to study the book market and realized that everything is very difficult there.

I downloaded Eckel's books, and some others, it turned out that they are very overloaded with information, the perception of which requires some kind of IT-background. In Eckel's book from the very beginning there is a lot of information about objects and so on, it's all very hard for me to perceive.


Tell us how you started, how best to approach this craft.

Answer 1

If you choose between books on Java, then you can look at the following:
G. Schildt - Java guide for beginners (or, for example, Java Head First O'Reilly)
Next is B. Eckel - Philosophy of Java
You can also G. Schildt - Complete Java guide
Then you can look at Raul-Gabriel Urma - The Modern Java Language
And of course read books such as:
Clean Code,
Robert Laforet - Java Data Structures and Algorithms,
J. Bloch - Java. Efficient Programming

Answer 2

Finished school?
When you taught mathematics, was one book enough, or did you need a little more than one during your school education?
When you finished school, did you feel the knowledge of a mathematician who is ready to earn money with mathematical calculations? No, it's just basic math?
So it is with programming. There is no perfect book to start with. It takes a lot of books, a lot of effort to master something from scratch. Therefore, it is best to seek less and gnaw more on the granite of science.