[rfurlan]

Books are great to get you started, but real-world problems will always be your best tutors. Try to build something by yourself begin-to-end, Google whenever you get stuck, rinse repeat for a while and before you know it you will start to feel quite comfortable working with code. Once you get to that point, then maybe it would be a good time to step back and starting reading more to learn different, perhaps more sophisticated ways of thinking about your code.