Would I really benefit from reading this?

you should drop out of college and get a real job

What exactly is roundabout about SICP?

Because it's not gay faggotry without a clear and minimalist design behind it. Tcl doesn't have Numpy, but why would you care when you have wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Critcl? There's also tclquadcode coming together slowly but surely.
Also, you can escape Python's leaderless "diversity is a strength" mob.

Obviously you will know more math than he does, but depending on how good the school was, and how much he studied, he might know more about electronics and hardware than you do, plus by the time he has finished college, he would have already programmed in about a dozen languages, with C or C++ or Java being his "main" language while stuff like Octave, Matlab(you should definitely check these two as well), Haskell, Prolog, Python, Assembly, VHDL, Verilog, SQL being used for one or two courses. Even with C, he would have probably done some basic networking, like a file sharing or messenger program, kernel modules, micro controller programming, and so on.
t. this is what I had at my university from Eastern Europe and no mandatory feminism courses

Because the transcendental concepts of computer science are so reliant on the latest javascript framework

Syntax is the simplest part of programming. Once you know one language, you can pick up another in a week. Algorithms, data structures, and ways of thinking all are independent of the language and haven't evolved very much, especially not at the undergrad level, since SICP was first published.

Not to say actual CS isn't a worthy area, but for someone looking to learn practical shit SICP is far from the best use of their time. Will reading it hurt? Hell no. Will it help? Probably. But you also don't have infinite time to read infinite books, so you have to think about priorities. SICP makes you do shit like write compilers. If that is your goal, great. If not...

Acting like everyone should main their theory lvl is dumb imo. It's like saying if you become a linguistics prof you can instantly comprehend all languages. But learning vocab and idioms still tales time. Just learning math won't make you an expert accountant or actuary, you'll still have to learn all the regulations and conventions. SICP will make other things easier to learn, but not necessarily so much that it will be worth the time, depending on topic. It will still take time to learn practicalities, it won't be instant. Syntax and javascript frameworks may be unglamarous but if that's what you need for your goal, why would you not go and learn directly that? Why take a giant detour to learn a bunch of theory you won't use?

Not even the author of SICP advocates programming from it anymore. They use it for advanced CS (ie. research) courses.

r u really at a point in your life where you cant take a couple days to read something that takes a commitment and a challenge for you learning ability?
these ivy league students. my god.

Isn't that a good thing tbh? Sure not helpful if you work as a JS paieet.

SICP only becomes interesting long after you have learned a bunch of other stuff. Starting with it is like starting with Aristophanes.

Advanced CS doesn't teach anything for people who just want to make small software projects. It's very abstract CS for writing theoretical papers and designing software that would need to be built by hundreds of people over many years. Unless these are your goal it's as useful as learning quantum chemistry to cook a soup.