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Yes! This is the book. It was just updated in January. Read the reviews and you'll see that it is highly thought of.
I just got mine a few weeks ago and it is great.
First up - do you have hosting? Can you install WordPress there? Have you written or edited posts and Pages on a WordPress site? If not, make that a priority.
mrstejdm's suggestions are excellent - much depends on how you prefer to learn (books? videos? articles?) so here are a few to get you started.
Resources
The Codex is surprisingly good, you could start there and supplement your learning with books and courses. Look out for Morten Rand-Hendriksen at Lynda.com and on Twitter. Great instructor.
The WordPress Handbook, also full of great, searchable information.
The Loop
The WPMUDev blog (https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/) has some great content too.
Books
Digging into WordPress by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr could be a good starting point (it's visually very attractive).
Professional WordPress: Design and Development 3rd Edition is also very good.
Yeah, WordPress.org has a learning curve.. don't let people tell you otherwise. The web is full of bad advice and out dated blog articles. The Codex is a good place to start, but even that has problems at this point. It's old tech with some weird parts.. very useful, but not modern. And there has recently been a push to modernize it.. that's great, but it's even more confusing to learn now, imo.
I read a useful book about WordPress aimed at developers just to help me wrap my head around the weirdness of WordPress. It isn't complete, but it was a good start for me (helped me sort through the trash pile that an open web search produces).
WordPress for Deb's
My route to building websites was basically Codecademy for HTML/CSS and then these two books (probably out date here):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creating-Website-Missing-Matthew-MacDonald/dp/1491918071/
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Professional-WordPress-Development-Brad-Williams/dp/1118987241/
and any foundation knowledge gaps from these two were plugged by searching the Wordpress Codex which is the knowledge base: https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development and quite often WP Beginner: https://www.wpbeginner.com/
I also saw this posted here which I bookmarked as I though it was useful: https://medium.com/@adamchodson/barebones-approach-to-developing-a-modern-wordpress-theme-6fc44ab7a25b?sk=0511e966debf50d4b6e88a966c7791d7
I didn't really use YouTube although it's undeniably has the potential to be a great learning resource.
Only disclaimer I have is that I'm a hobbyist Web Dev and don't do it as my full time job. There's people out there who can definitely recommend a better approach to take to learning WordPress then what I've written. YMMV.