SICP is excellent but I'm not sure if it should be the first touch you have to programming. HTDP might be a little more practical and easy to approach. Maybe fo

SICP is excellent but I'm not sure if it should be the first touch you have to programming. HTDP might be a little more practical and easy to approach. Maybe for a computer scientist, SICP would be fine but for someone who wants to learn a little bit of coding, SICP is overkill. Also, SICP's examples are intended for people with strong background in maths, etc (what you can expect from a CS student), like the examples on finding square roots or doing symbolic differentiation. Don't get me wrong, though. I personally like these examples a lot but I'm a pretty hard core CS geek.