Beginner programmer help.

I've been teaching myself C for a little while and I plan to study programming in university. I was wondering what languages I should try next. I'd rather avoid web development if I can. I saw Microsoft's express books on VB and C# and was thinking of getting one of those. If you guys could suggest some books (titles, authors or publishers) that I could easily find in a book store like Borders (Chapters for me here in Canada though) I would greatly appreciate your help and someday I may be posting here a little bit wiser because of it.

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You're seriously confused if you think SICP is about LISP. SICP is about the structure and computation of computer programs, not LISP. The medium that is used to describe these computer programs is a LISP-like variant called Scheme.