[shakna]

The SICP lectures are on YouTube [0], so you can grab a taste to see if you want it.

SICP covers a lot of the higher level concepts we use day-to-day, but in such a way that you can grasp lower-down concepts along the way.

That's let me write code faster, understand compiler stacktraces better, and grasp why some things work in a language, but similar code doesn't, and get a handle on optimisation where I need it.

Everyone seems to get a little different benefit out of it, but most people I know have got some benefit, even just from the first few exercises or lectures.

Unfortunately, it gave me my favourite area of CS: Language design. Which isn't exactly a career track, being so niche.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB63C06FAF154F047