Once you have read a few introductory sources, I suggest you take a look at Sonatype's free ebooks. The first few chapters of "Maven: The Complete Reference" are a must-read to really understand the key concepts behind Maven and how it works. Available here: https://www.sonatype.com/ebooks More on reddit.com

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Basic with no deep sh*t? Maven in 5 minutes (see here ). More on reddit.com

The key words in that description are "project's build infrastructure". Maven really helps keep track of all of your project's dependencies through a single configuration file called pom.xml. For instance, say you want to add unit tests to your project with the jUnit testing framework. You could go out to junit.com, download the jar, and put it somewhere in you project. Or you could just add junit junit 4.12 to your pom.xml file and maven will take care everything else for you. I do like apache's maven tutorial https://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/index.html but if you want to learn through video just search for a tutorial on youtube, I'm sure there are plenty of starter guides there. More on reddit.com