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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Some people name mangle in C because there aren't namespaces.
How the fuck is that supposed to work? I've seen lots of stupid  C code written in the name of encapsulation, but how would name mangling help at all? I'd {love|hate|vomit} to see an example.