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This is not a very impressive hack compared to the other submissions here. But still here is my 'hack', if you want to call it that way. When I was doing my gr
by niyazpk 17y ago
This is not a very impressive hack compared to the other submissions here. But still here is my 'hack', if you want to call it that way.
When I was doing my graduate course in Computer Engineering, we had to submit loads of assignments each semester for each paper. "Assignment" means something that we should write by hand (print-outs not allowed) on any arbitrary topic provided by the lecturers. There was no problem solving ability required here, it was just answering questions like "What are the features of Java?", "Explain the layers in the TCP/IP model" etc.
As you can assume, this was a rather boring and useless exercise. In the first two years I made some girls from my class to write the assignments (which I am not interested in) for me in exchange for helping them in the computer lab and projects (which they were not much interested in).
By the end of second year, I found out another way to do this. I wrote a program that wrote the assignment for me. Here is how it worked: I will fetch the data from websites like Wikipedia etc and paste it in the program and the program will make it look like my handwriting. I click print and it will print the result to A4 sized papers and I submitted those.
I scanned my handwriting and separated each character and made it look like natural when paragraphs etc were constructed with this program.
The results were so impressive that later when I told this story and showed an assignment to one of my lecturers, he thought that I was just joking!
This hack even though trivial, saved me a lot of time in college.