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 there any reason you cant have both TCO and stacktraces at the same time that i am missing?
as my mspaint art shows
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/1497/tcostacktraceincompatib.png
it should work out fine in theory