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PowerShell 7 Workshop

You're reading from   PowerShell 7 Workshop Learn how to program with PowerShell 7 on Windows, Linux, and the Raspberry Pi

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801812986
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: PowerShell Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to PowerShell 7 – What It Is and How to Get It FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Exploring PowerShell Cmdlets and Syntax 4. Chapter 3: The PowerShell Pipeline – How to String Cmdlets Together 5. Chapter 4: PowerShell Variables and Data Structures 6. Chapter 5: PowerShell Control Flow – Conditionals and Loops 7. Chapter 6: PowerShell and Files – Reading, Writing, and Manipulating Data 8. Chapter 7: PowerShell and the Web – HTTP, REST, and JSON 9. Part 2: Scripting and Toolmaking
10. Chapter 8: Writing Our First Script – Turning Simple Cmdlets into Reusable Code 11. Chapter 9: Don’t Repeat Yourself – Functions and Scriptblocks 12. Chapter 10: Error Handling – Oh No! It’s Gone Wrong! 13. Chapter 11: Creating Our First Module 14. Chapter 12: Securing PowerShell 15. Part 3: Using PowerShell
16. Chapter 13: Working with PowerShell 7 and Windows 17. Chapter 14: PowerShell 7 for Linux and macOS 18. Chapter 15: PowerShell 7 and the Raspberry Pi 19. Chapter 16: Working with PowerShell and .NET 20. Answers to Activities and Exercises 21. Index 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Preface

PowerShell is a free, powerful, and easy-to-learn programming language. Originally written as a scripting and administration tool for Windows, it’s now available as an open source resource that can be installed on almost all laptops and desktops. I have been teaching PowerShell to my colleagues for the last decade, and in my spare time, I teach coding to kids in local schools, mostly in Python. Why not teach coding with PowerShell?

Many books and courses on PowerShell assume an audience with access to multiple machines, Active Directory domains, and various other enterprise environments. They often also play down the traditional coding elements of PowerShell. This book does neither and attempts to teach coding with PowerShell, in a similar way to how we teach coding with Python. I’ve been inspired by the incredible work of Dr Chuck Severance of the University of Michigan – if you want to learn Python, his Python for Everybody course at py4e.org is excellent.

The book is split into three parts. In the first part, we cover traditional coding theory; starting with how PowerShell works as a language, we look at the building blocks of the language and then move on to how we can combine them in a programmatic flow.

In the second part, we start to put together the principles we’ve learned into scripts and modules that we can share and reuse.

In the final part of the book, we look at how PowerShell works in different environments, before finishing with a chapter on how we can access the underlying framework that PowerShell is built on.

I’ve included many interesting and varied examples and exercises in the book. To get the most out of it, I encourage you to actually type out the code, rather than just read it; the physical act of typing it drives a much deeper engagement than just scanning it ever will. Try out the questions and activities, and have a good think about the questions before skipping ahead to the answers. You’ll get much more out of the exercises if you have to work a little.

I would love to hear what you think and any suggestions you have for how the book might be improved.

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