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The downvotes to my response to his self-proclaimed precociousness indicate that others find my implication to be 'irritating' as well. However, anyone who is bogged down in the math would most certainly benefit from the sources in this list, many of which are explicitly prepared to avoid the math difficulties. SICP is not the place to learn basic mathematics, and it seems to me that it would be distracting from their message.