Scott is a born problem solver, starting with an IBM PS/1 and installing 3.5 floppy disks from a DOS prompt before moving on to building his own machines and becoming the defacto IT guy of his community.
In high school he programmed games into his TI-83 graphing calculator with friends and wired their school for sound. At Yale, he found he learned almost as much designing websites for local businesses as sitting in lecture halls.
As other designers will know, this led naturally to developing in Javascript, Jquery, Python, and PHP.