PowerShell for Beginners

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Title: PowerShell for Beginners
Description: Learn the basic tools and commands to write scripts in PowerShell 7. This hands-on guide is designed to get you up and running on PowerShell quickly - introducing interactive menus, reading and writing files, and creating code that talks over the network to other scripts, with mini games to facilitate learning. PowerShell for Beginners starts with an introduction to PowerShell and its components. It further discusses the various tools and commands required for writing scripts in PowerShell 7, with learning reinforced by writing mini games. You will learn how to use variables and conditional statements for writing scripts followed by loops and arrays. You will then work with functions and classes in PowerShell. Moving forward, you will go through the PowerShell Console, customizing the title and text colors. Along the way you will see how to read a key press and make sound in PowerShell. The final sections cover game engine layout, how to build a title screen, and implementing the game design using code flow, title screens, levels, and much more. After reading the book you will be able to begin working with PowerShell 7 scripts and understand how to use its tools and commands effectively.What You Will LearnUse Microsoft Visual Studio Code to develop scriptsUnderstand variables, loops and conditional statements in PowerShellWork with scripts to develop a gameDiscover and use ASCII art generatorsComprehend game objects and codeCreate client-server scripts that communicate over a networkRead and write to filesCapture input from the keyboardMake PowerShell speak words to help the visually impairedCreate text-based adventure games Who This Book Is ForSoftware developers who want to start working with PowerShell scripts.
Authors: Ian Waters
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Video games--Programming, Windows PowerShell (Computer program language), Systems programming (Computer science)
Categories: COMPUTERS / Programming / Microsoft
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