SICP for me was the missing link between learning syntax and code to designing actual programs that solve real problems. It made me step back and look at a pro

SICP for me was the missing link between learning syntax and code to designing actual programs that solve real problems. It made me step back and look at a problem not as something that just needs a layer of code thrown at it, but as a task to complete, with requirements, constraints, etc. to consider before a single line of code is even written.