The best ones are those that have projects at the end of each chapter that incorporate what you've just learned. But yeah, I feel that books are mainly just for

The best ones are those that have projects at the end of each chapter that incorporate what you've just learned. But yeah, I feel that books are mainly just for jumpstarting into a language, and don't help terribly much in the long-term. It can help with solving problems in the most sensible way for the language, but otherwise it's best to just hammer on a project.