SICP

Say, someone who has no prior experience with programming, and is at a rather 'young' age (Teen still) wants to get ahead of the game, and start up now, rather than later. Would one go about this by reading SICP? I've seen it linked so many times, I've only got to think it's a start.

The book "Simply Scheme" teaches what SICP does in an easier to understand way.

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The designers of Lua make a big thing out of its functional programming features, but it actually doesnt even have half as much functional features as Python does. Lua's main advantage is its speed and embeddability into applications such as games.

If you want a buttkicker of a scripting language that feels like Sepples, you should try Squirrel. There is even a version of Squirrel as a shell language. Now this is what C shell should have been.