Part 2: Scripting and Toolmaking

This part walks you through turning a set of cmdlets into a script, introduces functional programming, shows you how to turn scripts into modules, and how to share those modules with colleagues and others using GitHub and GitLab. It also includes a chapter on PowerShell security, so that you don’t inadvertently distribute code that is less secure than it could be.

This part has the following chapters:

• Chapter 8, Writing Our First Script – Turning Simple Cmdlets into Reusable Code
• Chapter 9, Don’t Repeat Yourself – Functions and Scriptblocks
• Chapter 10, Error Handling – Oh No! It’s Gone Wrong!
• Chapter 11, Creating Our First Module
• Chapter 12, Securing PowerShell