This is exactly what I did too, but after 12ish years of experience.

I watched the original lectures on Youtube while working through the book. Really enlightening experience.

I was hooked by the cover art of the book and after a few minutes of watching the lecture where he explained a procedure as a pattern of rules and compared them to spells. That's a really profound way of not only thinking, but teaching too because you have to remember those people in the class are new to computer programming. That's such a good analogy on so many levels.