[eqvinox]

It might be more relevant how you started programming. If you're playing with things, taking them apart, making them do odd things — it's likely you pick up a bottom-up understanding, messing with minor aspects at first. That lends itself to becoming a "sorcerer". Conversely, if you acquire a skill in pursuit of solving a specific problem (and matching how things are taught, mostly), you start top-down, becoming a "wizard".

[vlovich123]

Yeah that sounds like a more plausible hypothesis. Although the line is very blurred about how you defined “specific problem”. Everything I started programming with was specific problem I was having at the time (writing a media indexer to dedupe my music library, writing a presence simulator to fool those early “pay you for browsing your computer” adware) rather than just playing around for the sake of playing around. From one respective I was picking problems randomly and seeing if I could solve them so I guess that’s more playing around. But it’s not like playing around with graphics where you try to see what kind of effects you can create.