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.

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I'd actually say good. There are certainly areas where there's some room for improvement, so it's not perfect, but they aren't such that they detract from productivity or fun. Most of the things people enjoy complaining about when it comes to Python are non-issues.
If you're going to call Python merely OK, you have to face the fact that there are no languages that are actually good.