SICP

This book is overhyped and useless for non-Scheme programmers. The obscure and non-intuitive syntax(with plenty of parenteheses) of Lisp + heavy abuse of recursion means people learn bad coding habits. If you want to learn practical programming use a book suited to your language of choice, or a language reference/manual.

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SICP teaches you Lisp and it doesn't teach you to be a programmer, it teaches you to be a BAD programmer.  A much better alternative for learning the concepts of CS is "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" (HTLCS).

Yes, I am aware some retard is going to run in here with their FORCED POSTING OF MEME and say I'm wrong, but the fact of the matter is that if you want your students to learn the CONCEPTS and have a good FOUNDATION and learn GOOD HABITS in CS, then you should teach them Python using HTLCS.