Another good one, although Scheme oriented (like SICP) is How To Design Programs: http://www.htdp.org/ http://www.htdp.org/ The second edition is a work in pro

Another good one, although Scheme oriented (like SICP) is How To Design Programs: http://www.htdp.org/ http://www.htdp.org/ The second edition is a work in progress, but it gets you going pretty quickly with graphical programs, so it's a bit less cerebral (and arguably more interesting for many beginning programmers): http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/ http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/