[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.