About the Book

Enhance your PowerShell Learning In a Whole New Way

Long-time Microsoft MVP and veteran PowerShell teacher Jeff Hicks has created a PowerShell book, unlike anything you've read before. Those other books are great, and the assumption for this book is that you have read something like Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches or have equivalent experience. You understand some PowerShell basics but need to improve your fluency. Learning PowerShell is no different than learning any foreign language. You need to practice it and use it constantly. That's where The PowerShell Practice Primer comes into the picture.

This book consists of 100-plus PowerShell-centric problems or exercises. The solutions should be no more than a few lines of PowerShell commands that you would **run in an interactive console session**. This is **not** a scripting book. The PowerShell Practice Primer is designed to improve your proficiency with the PowerShell paradigm, language, and syntax. The exercises don't require any custom lab setup. You should be able to answer everything with a Windows 10 desktop. Problems in Part 5 assume you have installed the latest stable release of PowerShell 7.x.

Is This All Fun and Games?

The exercises in this book are (mostly) based on real-world and practical applications. The hope is that you'll have fun figuring out a solution and that the *real* learning happens during that process. *How* you devise a solution is more important to the learning process than the solution itself. The problems start at a beginner-level and increase in complexity throughout the book.

Check Out the Free Sample

The free sample includes sample chapters to give you a taste of what to expect. You are encouraged and more than welcomed to download them. But why bother? Leanpub has a no-questions-asked refund policy, so it's completely risk-free. But you may want to grab the sample anyway because it has questions that aren't in the book. Think of them as bonus exercises!

Available Formats

Leanpub offers ebooks in PDF, MOBI, and EPUB formats, and you get all three with your purchase. Personally, I love the "Send to Kindle" feature. Note that the PDF is probably the "highest fidelity" version, especially in terms of code listings. Although Microsoft Edge can open and display the epub version. It can even read the book aloud for you!

About the Author

Jeff Hicks

@JeffHicks

Jeffery Hicks is an IT veteran with almost 35 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT infrastructure consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis on automation and efficiency. He is a multi-year recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award. He works today as an independent author, teacher, and consultant. You can keep up with Jeff at https://jdhitsolutions.github.io