Those books are great; though I'm not sure whether they are good for a beginner? Getting your feet wet by programming in a few reasonably typed languages might be better, before you tackle TAPL?
(By 'reasonably typed' I mean something like Haskell, OCaml, even TypeScript or Facebook's hack. But not Go, C++ or Java.)
(By 'reasonably typed' I mean something like Haskell, OCaml, even TypeScript or Facebook's hack. But not Go, C++ or Java.)