Just starting out in this whole thing. Where should I start? Am in the righ place, starting out with Java?

Answer 1

Start from Home and learn through all Java tutorial lessions.

Answer 2

Yes, Java encompasses many concepts of modern languages if not all concepts such as object oriented programming and versatile enough to perform vast and extremely complex tasks such as interact with our even design web back ends, database transactions etc. You can extrapolate the concepts of Java to various other languages, syntactically and otherwise.