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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Most of the things people enjoy complaining about when it comes to Python are non-issues.
For most things you can argue that, but you can run into the blub paradox if you are not careful. Take TCO for instance, if you've never used a language with proper TCO you can claim that "it's not a problem in practice", and it may not have been for you. Some of us like to write our programs in other ways, and find python wanting in certain aspects. One other issue, is that object fields are public. Again, maybe not a problem for you, but some of us know how useful proper encapsulation can be.
you have to face the fact that there are no languages that are actually good.
I agree with this statement.

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1. I'm not talking about writing loops recursively. Anyone who writes a basic iteration recursively instead of using a higher order construct is a moron. TCO is especially useful in any case where you have a state-maching-like structures, and I've written imperative programs that have ended up kind of like that more times than I'd care to admit.</sub>