This book is simply superb, but considering the pedigree this is not surprising. I have a number of Murach Books and they are never far from my desk.
What I like about this book in particular is the fact it doesn't treat you like a 'hello world' programmer. It gives you some respect and that respect is in the form of look we know you know how to program, but you got this book for a reason and that is to help you learn this new language or language version. Well, we are going to do exactly that.
If you are already a programmer, you likely have your own structure for how do things, this book helps you increase your real-estate in that it shows you how to do things that you would want to do day to day as a programmer not 'demo' stuff like populating combo-boxes with hard coded text, you can get that anywhere. No real examples things you might use in production. That's why it's good and I recommend it to you.