[cutler]

There's always Clojure. Best of both worlds, i.e. Scheme-ish with Java host. We had a SICP Clojure group here in London last year and I think someone has written an adaptation of SICP in Clojure. If it was any other text I'd have nothing to say but SICP without the Scheme/Lisp doesn't make sense. If universities choosing Python or Java as their teaching language they should also switch to texts based on OOP.

[conceit]

Why doesn't it make sense without any LISP? I read only the first chapters and found the concept of composition immediately applicable in C and as a C programmer I would write the same way in python, probably.