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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As I said before, SICP isn't about LISP, but does make use Scheme. You have faulty logic. Computer science isn't about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators. Biology is not really about the microscope and petri dishes. SICP isn't about LISP. You need to actually see that computer, so-called science, has a lot in common with magic and is what you will see that in this course.

Had you read SICP, you wouldn't be confused.