Teaching myself

Okay, I want to teach myself programming.

I tried SICP first.  I hit section 1.2 and realized my skills are just not up to par for a book aimed at MIT students.

I'm thinking now of hitting a thorough-but-practical book.  From some quick searching "C Primer Plus" seems to generally be what I want.

On the side I plan on beefing up my math skills in preparation for eventually moving from programming to deeper comp sci type stuff.

What does /prog/ think?

>>11
What can I say, your so called ``professors'' are merely human, flesh and blood and bone. They are able to make mistakes. Why do you think they changed to Java in the first place? Because they felt they made a mistake with the original course, which necessitated the need for change.
Nobody gets it right the first time.