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.

Is it just me or Lua could be modified to have semantics very close to those of LISP? Too bad its main data structure are tables instead of linked lists.