I tried SICP straight from the book once, but I think the lectures are much better and the book acts as a supplemental reference.
These sound a little better than I remember. I wonder if the sound was cleaned up?
Cannot recommend these enough. Watch the first one and you'll be hooked
interesting approach to SICP.
These 1986 lectures are the definitive SICP experience — the Hal and Gerry show at its peak. The presentation quality holds up remarkably well, and seeing the metacircular evaluator built live is something no textbook can fully capture. For those who find the book dense, these lectures provide the pacing and intuition that make the abstractions click.
If you want to work through SICP, you can use MIT Scheme, but another option is to use Racket or DrRacket, with this add-on package: https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/