Lyndsey Scott

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Lyndsey Scott in 2017

Lyndsey Scott (* 1984 ) is an American software developer and model .

Childhood and youth

Lyndsey Scott grew up in West Orange, New Jersey , the oldest of four children. She started martial arts when she was nine . Her father was employed by the National Security Agency as a programmer and started a health care company. He died of leukemia in 2017 .

In the early years of her schooling, she was the only black woman in her school and was exposed to bullying that continued into high school .

She attended Amherst College theater, economics, and physics seminars before enrolling in computer science and theater there , earning a double degree in 2006 . In the 400-meter run she was in the All America selection . She has a black belt in Taekwondo .

Career

At the beginning of her modeling career, she lived on Roosevelt Island in New York City .

According to her own statements, the beginning of her modeling career was difficult. She was advised not to give her age truthfully when inquiring about contracts. In the first years of her modeling career, she stated 1990 as the year of her birth. It wasn't until she uploaded a picture of herself to models.com in 2008 that she was contacted by the New York City agency Click Model Management . In 2009 she was contacted by Calvin Klein while distributing flyers . She became the first African American catwalk model to be exclusively contracted with Calvin Klein. This was followed by further assignments at Vera Wang , DKNY , Fendi , Gucci , Louis Vuitton and at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2009. She was a cover for magazines for the Italian Elle and Teen Vogue . She ran for Prada at New York Fashion Week in 2010 . She then switched the agency to Elite Model Management .

Software development

Lyndsey began programming games on the TI-89 calculator in middle school at the age of twelve . At college, she learned the programming languages Java and C ++ and MIPS architecture and learned self-taught Python , Objective C and iOS .

She has a profile on Stack Overflow , a question-and-answer community on the subject of programming, which, with over 400 questions answered and the 20,000 reputation points gained as a result, belongs to the top two percent of users. She is the author of iOS programming tutorials on RayWenderlich.com, a representative of Code.org's second Hour of Code initiative , mentor of NPO Girls Who Code and of Girl Scouts in Los Angeles who wanted to learn to code.

Applications / apps

Their first published app, which was published in cooperation with two other students, is Educate! . Their second published app is iPort , which aims to help models manage their portfolio in digital form. According to her own statements, since then it has helped her to do without folders that she would otherwise have to carry around with her. Their fifth app, Code Made Cool , is a learning application that is designed to introduce users to programming using drag & drop .

Web links

Commons : Lyndsey Scott  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Carmel DeAmicis: From coding to the catwalk: This high fashion model has a secret double life . In: PandoDaily . January 2, 2014. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ Katherine Duke: The Beauty of Coding . In: Amherst Magazine , Amherst College , Spring 2014. Retrieved July 27, 2017.  Also online at Issuu .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Stuart Brumfitt: From underwear to software: meet Lyndsey Scott, the model with a geeky secret . In: The Daily Telegraph , April 26, 2014. Retrieved July 2017. 
  4. ↑ Moses Scott Obituary . In: The Star-Ledger , March 19, 2017. Retrieved August 4, 2017. 
  5. ↑ a b Helena de Bertodano: Lyndsey Scott, the top model who codes in the bath . In: The Times , July 10, 2017. Retrieved July, 2017. 
  6. ↑ Michel Martin: Lyndsey Scott: Runway Model And Tech Programmer . In: National Public Radio , March 20, 2014. Retrieved July 2017. 
  7. ↑ Lyndsey Scott: Lyndsey Scott, CTO & Senior iOS Engineer at RYSE UP Inc. . In: LinkedIn . Accessed July 2017.
  8. ↑ Hollie Moat: Great Scott! , Farfetch . Accessed July 2017. 
  9. ^ Amherst College Athletics: Track & Field: Amherst Women Second, Men Third at Little III's , Amherst College . April 18, 2004. Archived from the original on September 20, 2006. Retrieved on August 4, 2017. 
  10. ↑ Helin Jung: What 5 Models Really Think About France Banning Extremely Skinny Models . In: Cosmopolitan , March 20, 2015. Retrieved August 14, 2017. 
  11. ↑ a b Priya Rao: This Week's Model: Lyndsey Scott . In: W , December, 2009. Retrieved July 27, 2017. 
  12. ^ A b Lyndsey Scott - Fashion Model - Profile on New York Magazine . In: New York . Retrieved July 27, 2017. 
  13. ^ Tia Williams: Model Behavior: Fresh-Faced Lyndsey Scott . In: Essence , April 7, 2010. Retrieved August 17, 2017. 
  14. ↑ Lyndsey Scott - Model Profile - Photos & latest news . In: Models.com . Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  15. ^ A b Claire Lefebvre: Lyndsey Scott - Un cerveau et des stilettos (French) . In: Paris Match , December, 2014. Retrieved August 14, 2017. 
  16. ↑ James Lim: Lyndsey Scott: First Black Model to Score Calvin Exclusive . In: New York , February 20, 2009. Retrieved July 27, 2017. 
  17. ↑ Megan O'Neil: Great Scott . In: Elle , September 24, 2010. Retrieved July 27, 2017. 
  18. ↑ Kyle Russell: Lyndsey Scott, A Model And Coder . In: Business Insider , January 2, 2014. Retrieved July 27, 2017. 
  19. ^ Lyndsey Scott: Lyndsey Scott, iOS Developer . In: Stack Overflow . Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  20. ^ Empowering the Next Generation: History Becomes HERStory , New York University Tandon School of Engineering . March 16, 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2017. 
  21. ^ User Lyndsey Scott . Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  22. ↑ Lyndsey Scott: lyndsey profiles . In: Ray Wenderlich . Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  23. ↑ Code.org Releases 'Frozen' Hour of Code Tutorial . The Walt Disney Company . November 20, 2014. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
  24. ^ Anna Bressanin: Lyndsey Scott: The model who dreams in code . In: BBC News , March, 2014. Retrieved July 27, 2017.  Video on YouTube .
  25. ↑ Lyndsey Scott: Empowering Girl Scouts in LA! . Hacker find. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  26. ↑ Educate! in the AppStore
  27. ↑ iPort on the App Store on iTunes . In: Internet Archive . Archived from the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  28. ^ Carey Dunne: Victoria's Secret Model Develops An App, For Models . January 9, 2014. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Scott, Lyndsey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American model and software developer
DATE OF BIRTH 1984