i can tell you that after going through only a few chapters of SICP, it radically changed the way i wrote code. i took the MITx 6.00X programming course after a

i can tell you that after going through only a few chapters of SICP, it radically changed the way i wrote code. i took the MITx 6.00X programming course after and was incredibly uncomfortable at using destructive methods (to give an exmaple), even though i used to write and think code in that way.