An HTML exam: I saved the table from Word out of Word

At university we had a course on HTML programming, if you can call that programming. It was an elective, and I signed up for it. Though, to be honest, I already more or less knew all of it by then: I already had, or at least was building, muo.lv. I thought it would be something more serious, and instead we were told how to write styles and that sort of stuff.

In the exam the teacher opened Word, drew a little table with thin lines and said: “Make me the same thing in HTML.” And left.

But I hated CSS: piles of rules, and I didn’t remember by heart how to set a line’s width. So I took that same Word, pressed “Save as HTML”, and then removed by hand everything superfluous from the file, of which Word had stuffed in plenty.

The teacher came over and looked: “Did it like that? Interesting. A bit unusual, but it works. Good.” Exam passed.

What I took from it: the task is to get the result, not to reproduce it from memory. If a tool can already do it, all that’s left is to clean up after it.