I agree, I started reading SICP a few years ago when I was already a professional dev. I enjoyed it quite a lot, it's a very elegant book. That being said if I

I agree, I started reading SICP a few years ago when I was already a professional dev. I enjoyed it quite a lot, it's a very elegant book. That being said if I try to put myself back in 16 yo old me learning to code to write games for my calculator, I would've been incredibly frustrated by this book. The insights on the nature of programing constructs would've flown completely over my head and at the same time it wouldn't have given me the practical information I needed to get things done.