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.

Yes Lua may have a general mechanism, but python also has a few specific examples
lol

lambda functions, a bunch of mapping functions, reduce(), etc
Not for much longer if Guido gets his way