SICP gets many nods when it comes to introductory texts to programming and the study of PLs. I've been slowly working my way through SICP in a number of different PLs, most notably Oz and Alice ML.
In that process, I've come across Eli Bendersky's methodical solutions to the SICP Exercises in a series of blog posts.
His review of SICP is instructive of the role of the exercises:
A word about exercises in SICP.
They are...
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