I kinda skipped SICP (I had already been programming for a long time before it even occurred to me that there might be texts available that attempted to teach "

I kinda skipped SICP (I had already been programming for a long time before it even occurred to me that there might be texts available that attempted to teach "computational thinking" rather than just individual languages), but having browsed it since, I always recommend it to anyone who wants to learn programming (or HtDP, which also seems to cover similar ground).