Strongly recommended! It's an amazing book, more focusing on the introduction to programming rather than Java. The topics cover the programming applications on audio, graphics, images, statistics, daily life, maths (you will see how beautiful the maths is after reading this book), algorithms, etc. The Q & A and exercises are the most important parts should not be missed, although it's a bit of difficult to the new programming learner like me. Just created a repository of the solutions of exercises in this book: github.com/rivertea/IntroToProgrammin... You may help to improve the solutions together.
This is a great introduction to Java. Some of the examples include image processing and audio processing: once you get through this, you'll not only have a solid background in Java but you'll actually be able to do some interesting things in the language as well.
This is appealing to those inclined to learning Java beyond the basics. The author sure didn't run out of examples, mostly applications of mathematical theories.
There are very interesting things like creating and manipulating graphics in Java.