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I was lucky enough to read it during my studies and to have a teacher that made very good Slides focusing on the most interesting parts.

I think finding someone that guide you through the book allows to go way faster than alone.

Now, while the concepts were extremely illuminating, I think following the book but doing the exercises in haskell is also a nice path. Haskell was another lecture following the one on SICP by the same teacher, and it uses most of the same ideas, sometimes formulated a little differently, but on a more modern language.

I still remember my exam where we received ~6 pages double column of printed lisp, no comments. The code was a compiler, and we needed to change it so that it can jump back in time using call with cc. Difficult to do in 3h and on paper but very fun.