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I don't know about HTDP, it was keen to impose 'good practices' on me and I got bored. Your first book on science didn't talk about lab safety, it talked about fun stuff to get you excited. A first book on programming should be the same, every chapter should present some tiny fun program and explain it. Is there such a book? If not I might write it.

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SICP presents programming as something mystical and exciting, starting with using a wizard for the front cover.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

SICP was still written to be a college textbook, though, and is now more than 15 years old. I think there's room for another programming intro book. Let us know how it goes :-)

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