Don't think I have ever heard of the SICP book as my school split all these different subjects it covers into different courses. But looked it up and wow, it goes into a lot of advanced subjects! (recursion, trees, Big O and computational complexity, Data abstractions, Objects, and ends with compilers). That is some survey and it's amazing you were able to work through this in middle school - I was just learning Algebra and the history of the early Americans back then - Incredible
This now makes sense you were able to work on Rosetta 2 mainly on your own!
Can relate this too. Tried to read SCIP but dropped after a couple of chapters because I couldn't wrap my head around some of the exercises and the ' symbol.
Eventually figured out I'm more into comp arch, assembly language and such instead of the more Math part of CS.
This now makes sense you were able to work on Rosetta 2 mainly on your own!