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.

Just wanted to point this out to everyone posting about Lua: Lua is not a programming language. It is a scripting language. i.e. if you lua script, then you're a skiddie.