Reddit reviews Microeconometrics Using Stata: Revised Edition

I agree with most that doing some practice with it is probably the easiest, especially if you've already got a lot of knowledge of programming (ie it'll be easy to pick up). Grab something like Cameron and Trivedi as a nice reference, though I don't know if it's the most up to date. I don't know that it's the best text for learning, but will have a wide range of topics that you can easily reference as you approach problems.

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Have you taken a bunch of stats and/or econometrics? If so then I'd just do some replications of papers Joshua Angrist's site has quite a few that are fairly intuitive and approachable. Also William Evan's has a nice teaching page for learning to use Stata. I link the undergraduate one, but the graduate one is also useful as well and will be pretty approachable if you've had a solid background in stats and econometrics.

Uhm... in econometrics, I'd go with Woolridge (he has another book mostly on panel data but that is a graduate level textbook). I used Gujarati in my undergrad classes and didn't like it very much.

If you are more into macro-oriented time series econometrics, Enders is a great book, very practical and with a lot of examples. If you end up doing applied microeconometrics in Stata, Cameron and Trivedi have a great book for that.

I just stumbled upon this website that seems to have good info on econometrics texts which, as you can see, can be pretty pricey.