That's curious that his parents and your family discouraged him/you from computer science. I would've thought most parents would be happy about that choice of major for their kids.
'When Hashimoto went to college, his dad told him he had one year to pursue "that computer thing."
"If I couldn’t prove to him in a year it was useful in some way, I either had to pay for college myself or become a lawyer or doctor," Hashimoto says.'