I think his success spirals advice is great. You tend to build up skills iteratively and incrementally. But comparing SICP to baby Rudin is extremely out of po

I think his success spirals advice is great. You tend to build up skills iteratively and incrementally. But comparing SICP to baby Rudin is extremely out of point. SICP is a conceptual book. Rudin is a super-synthetic Bourbaki-like text. A lot of intuition has been removed. In general this is bad unless you're going through the topic for the n-th time.