Dusty Phillips is a software developer and author. His most popular book, Python Object Oriented Programming is now in its 4th edition, though Dusty is no longer a fan of OOP!

Dusty began coding in QBasic, Visual Basic, and Java as a teenager, but settled on a career in Python long before it became popular. He was the first person to write a book on Python 3 and was part of the team instrumental in bringing Python 3 to Instagram and Facebook. More recently, he enjoys experimenting with esoteric programming languages, many articles on which can be found on his blog.

Dusty has worked for a wide variety of companies, from two person startups to the world's largest social network (and the world's largest government), and companies of all sizes in between.

Dusty lives with his wife and 75 acres of trees in New Brunswick, Canada. The two of them recently co-founded Fablehenge, a platform for novelists to organize and write their stories