News Summary

• The student in this story figured out a loophole in the assignment and finished the program in zero lines of code.
• The professor was very strict and by the book on his policies.
• He was a tenured professor, set in his old ways, and felt a bit entitled because of his past career prestige.
• Even in 2009, he demanded that *all* coding assignments are turned in on 3.5 inch floppy drives.
• The assignment is simple; the execution is the challenge.
• The computer didn’t care where the byte data was stored.
• It just blindly ran whatever byte data you gave it, without checking whether it was valid memory space for executable instructions or even if it was a valid instruction.