I built webserver from scratch as a term project at university. Due that the fact that it actually did something self-contained and useful I got away with turni

I built webserver from scratch as a term project at university. Due that the fact that it actually did something self-contained and useful I got away with turning in C99 project for C++ course :) (and probably also because I wrote my own talloc/apr_pool-style malloc wrapper to base that on, when presenting the thing that was about as far as I got and then was told, "well, this is C++ course, but you got A and now go away") For another MSc. level course the whole term project assignment was: "choose or design some language and try to somehow conjure compiler and if required VM for that". "somehow conjure" is significant because nobody said you have to do that from scratch, hacking tcc/gcc/lcc/llvm to accept your language was fine and basing your language on top of some Smalltalk VM (preferrably ST/X ;)) or Common Lisp was essentially encouraged.