Ask HN: What's an effective study approach for SICP?

You are doing yourself a disservice by reading ahead before doing the the exercises, because you will spoil for yourself the answers to many of those exercises. Read it once, and do the exercises as you go along.

99% of the value is in the exercises. I would re-think the strategy of a first read-through without the exercises and spend the time to do the exercises.

Watch the video lectures?

Do people even read it?

Just read the thing. It’s short.