Going from a state school to a prestigious engineering institution, he was floored on the first day when aprofessor expected everyone to have already learned the material in the first six chapters of an algorithms textbook.
Henry's experience also echoes what Paula England, a Stanford University sociology professor, learned when she co-edited "Unmarried Couples with Children, " which was published in 2007.
Kocher, son of a physics professor at Oregon State University in Corvallis, says he learned about computing because he stayed home a lot, too lazy to bike the two miles into town.