Western education is fairly individualistic; it may not churn out the same level of hard-CS devotion as Eastern school systems. Check out 'coding' competitions

Western education is fairly individualistic; it may not churn out the same level of hard-CS devotion as Eastern school systems. Check out 'coding' competitions like Top Coder and IOI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Olympiad_in_Informatics#Multiple_IOI_winners http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Olympiad_in_Infor...