PowerShell for Beginners: Learn PowerShell 7 Through Hands-On Mini Games

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I. WatersPowerShell for Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7064-6_2

2. Beginners’ Guide to PowerShell and Visual Studio Code

Ian Waters¹  

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Bexhill, UK

 

Getting started developing PowerShell scripts is very easy, and the tools you need are open source and free to download and use. We first need to install the latest version of PowerShell and the code development tool Visual Studio Code.

PowerShell 7

PowerShell is the scripting language but also a command line shell that runs the scripting language. So we first need to install PowerShell in order to run our scripts. Remember PowerShell is open source and multiplatform making it extremely versatile ...