I found another good resource for learning how to write computer programs, called "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming", by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi. It uses declarative programming and distributive computing as a programming paradigm, and its programming language of choice is Mozart-Oz.
One could see this as a successor of "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, which used functional programming as a programming paradigm, and Scheme as the programming language of choice.
Both have their values as instructional books, because they learn you to see computer programming in new ways you never imagined existed before.
I will be concentrating on the SICP book for now, but it is good to know that there are more excellent books to learn how to write programs using your human intelligence and imagination, instead of copying and pasting what others have done before you. Nothing wrong with the latter, but I don't aspire to become a script kiddie, or even a code monkey. I want to design programs.
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