There are "introductory books", which can also be used as reference manuals. The beauty of them is that some of them are very accurate in their concept portraya

There are "introductory books", which can also be used as reference manuals. The beauty of them is that some of them are very accurate in their concept portrayal, but the concepts are in a order than lends itself towards learning the whole thing from the beginning. Also, never felt the feeling of "Whoa, this is cool, I'll refactor this method using that?"