Yeah, I did, but I mean, if I were teaching and I gave an assignment and a student turned in a completely different assignment, he'd get a very puzzled complime

Yeah, I did, but I mean, if I were teaching and I gave an assignment and a student turned in a completely different assignment, he'd get a very puzzled compliment from me for how good the work was, but a zero would go into the gradebook for not completing the assignment. I guess that's what I'm getting at. And even outside of a school situation, if I were at work and my boss asked me to build a database and import data from some of our customers due Monday afternoon, and instead I spent the next three days building a brand new app that nobody asked for, I'd be fired (or at the very least reprimanded for wasting company time).