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My teacher set me some homework:

enter image description here

What is the answer to my homework?

You will also need a copy of my homework to help you.

You don't need the image to solve the puzzle, that is just a preview.

Hint:

The question is from my computer science teacher, who has been experimenting with some strange programming languages...

After solving

I couldn't write the text out on SE because it doesn't allow tabs.

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  • $\begingroup$ Is this legitimately your homework? $\endgroup$
    – Beastly Gerbil
    Jan 27, 2017 at 18:14
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    $\begingroup$ @BeastlyGerbil no $\endgroup$
    – Melkor
    Jan 27, 2017 at 18:16
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    $\begingroup$ Good. Just had to ask. And if it was, then I would definitely be wondering what sort of school you go to :P $\endgroup$
    – Beastly Gerbil
    Jan 27, 2017 at 18:19
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    $\begingroup$ @Melkor Why an image? could you write it out instead? $\endgroup$
    – dcfyj
    Jan 27, 2017 at 18:31
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    $\begingroup$ @Will: These are not all spaces; they are spaces and tabs. $\endgroup$
    – M Oehm
    Jan 27, 2017 at 19:53

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Solution 1:

As M Oehm said, if you convert the spaces after the lines to 0 and the tabs as 1, you get: 

0001101001
0000100000
111100
00110011
100000
1110011
1100011
1101000
1101111
1101111
1101100
Converting this to ASCII, you get the message <3 school.

Solution 2:

If you run this in the esoteric programming language Whitespace, you get the message i <3 school. Try it online!

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  • $\begingroup$ Well done to @Oliver and @M Oehm! $\endgroup$
    – Melkor
    Jan 27, 2017 at 20:49

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