It's a bit contradictory to have people congratulate (as "exceptional accomplishment!" and so on) a guy who has finished SICP, exercises and all, and then wonder why MIT doesn't have it as their introductory course anymore. SICP is a great book and it would be great if everyone could swallow all of it in their introductory programming course, but reality doesn't seem to agree with this idea.

Eli's post makes me want to take on similar project, though.