Should I bail on a wedding vacation to Greece to see the Stanley Cup Finals with the boys? I hope someone creates an in-depth PowerPoint presentation to help find a solution to that one. And what are you supposed to do when your daughter's code is so bad that it's embarrassing?

All this and slightly more on this week's episode of The Advisory brought to you buy our new sponsor and tour announcement - CHASE THE TASTE! #TasteChasers.

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This week's feature advice seeker asks:

I (36M) am a web developer for many years now and have a lot of experience.

About a year ago my daughter (9F) suddenly decided she wanted to learn coding. She asked me to teach her. I declined and explained that it is complex and I don't have the time and would burn out from doing that after work as it is tough but that she was free to learn on her own.

We have a white list of sites she can access on her laptop so we were not afraid of her searching the web.

She did teach herself some C++ which is not a language I have used in years and is a bit outdated and not the simplest to pick up.

It's been a year and she calls herself "princess programmer" and it is a little cringy and she likes to wear a nice dress or skirt while working on some simple games she makes.

Recently she overheard one of my work meetings and learned what code reviews are and asked me to do one on her newest game while claiming that "princess programmer" wrote it very well and expects it to be very good.

I noticed many issues like bad variable naming conventions, code duplication, using if condition,return instead of just returning the condition.

I told her the quality sucked compared to anything that could be production code and that it would be easier to rewrite than fix it. I told her if she wanted to learn more she could rewrite it with my advice and that programming is serious and not a game and she should stop with the outfits and princess programmer stuff and maybe try an easier language than C++.

She cried and threw a tantrum and is upset at me and says I was too mean. And my wife is now also upset at me and says I should have lied and said her work was good and told her how to make it better. My wife did do coding in college but she doesn't do much of it in her job these days.

AITA here?

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This episode was streamed live on Twitch and YouTube on 04.05.23.

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00:00 - It begins

00:18 - The Twisties Saga Continues

02:43 - Dusty Endorsements: Our New Title Sponsor

05:30 - Question: Should I Bail a Wedding Vacation for The Stanley Cup

09:32 - The Power Point Presentation: Friendships Are Vital

17:13 - Ladies & Gentleman of the Court

20:03 - A Live Viewer Question: Which Celeb Needs a Laugh

22:55 - The Birthday Boys

25:23 - David Gets Indulgent (And Has A Potato Guy?)

31:00 - Feature: My Daughter's Code Embarrasses Me

41:59 - The Silver Screen Solution

44:30 - The Webisode Solution

47:25 - The Web Comic Solution

51:20 - The Outro

53:54 - Our Parting Thoughts