Hi and goodbye everyone.

As my dad explicitely forces me to stop coding, i'm now retiring from coding. I may be still on the IRC sometimes, but i don't think so, depends on my dad.
He will receive a copy of this message, in order for him to understand how much i like coding and doing calculator stuff.

Wow, I think it sucks for a parent to force their children to stop doing what they like most, especially when it's coding. I think he has to understand, like I made my father understand, that coding is what I wanna do for a living and that it's what's gonna make me earn money when I'm an adult and the more experience I have now, the better coder I will be when I'm an adult.

I'm very sorry for you rayquaza, I think that's just not what a father should do, and personally I can't stop coding now, I hope you can manage to get used to it Will you at least be able to code Axe/Basic on your calc?

I hope you can go back to coding some day

nope ephan since i have a nspire xD

Nspire Basic is better than nothing. There's also on-calc console for Lua, but that's not really coding.

If possible, I'd be curious to hear about the reasons invoked by your father for forbidding you to keep programming... Are these reasons decent and sane ?

If you're coding waaay more than you should, with the result that you're very tired, and your marks have switched from 15/20 to 5/20, he has a point; if he wants you to learn a job other than programming (for some reason), he does not necessarily have a point.

EDIT: as posted on IRC, I'll add that as long as you're under-age, and financially dependent from your family, you probably don't have much of a choice to comply...


And it seems that his father wants him to stop programming, even if rayquaza wants to have a job in programming later. And he wrote that his marks remained good. So I'm leaning towards his father not having a point...

Sorry, dude, but I understand where you're coming from.  Personally, my dad doesn't like me programming, spending time on Omnimaga, and he certainly doesn't like me being an admin here.  Oh well.
Good luck with everything, rayquaza.

I am getting more grateful for my parents every day. The just let me be and actually I sometimes show them what I have made, they don't understand how I manage to make the things I do but they are certainly interested.

My condolences, like others have said, I have no idea what your relationship with your father is but to me, personally, I don't think it's good parenting to keep your kid from the one thing that he likes most. I can even go further on this, there has been a scientist doing research about geniusses, the one thing that made a genius was nurturing. His daughter once grabbed a chess game and asked how it worked, she was fascinated by how the game worked and her dad (the scientist) taught her every time he came from work more about chess. She is now a world wide recognized champion in chess. Reason one, she chose chess herself. Reason two: her dad did not force anything unto her but let her chose what she liked, in this case chess, he then supported it and nurtured it.
I see if I can find the video in which this story is explained...it's been a while since I watched it...

Sorry to hear

Hope you can program stuff again.

It's sad when parents do this to their own children. I wish the best of luck in convincing him to change his mind. Is your dad just against calculator coding, or all types? If you can still code computer programs, that's better than nothing. Do you have any relatives that are programmers? Maybe they could talk to your dad as well.