Название: PowerShell for Beginners: Learn PowerShell 7 Through Hands-On Mini Games
Автор: Ian Waters
Издательство: Apress
Год: 2021
Страниц: 238
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 11.7 MB

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.

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 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 but is not yet installed by default on many systems, so it’s an additional component that needs to be downloaded and installed to make use of it. Windows 10 comes with the older version PowerShell 5.1, but this is no longer maintained. Although many of the scripts and teachings in this book will work with the Windows built-in version, there are several PowerShell 7 coding features that are not present in older versions, so ensure you get the latest version and install it.

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 Learn:

Use Microsoft Visual Studio Code to develop scripts
Understand variables, loops and conditional statements in PowerShell
Work with scripts to develop a game
Discover and use ASCII art generators
Comprehend game objects and code
Create client-server scripts that communicate over a network
Read and write to files
Capture input from the keyboard
Make PowerShell speak words to help the visually impaired
Create text-based adventure games

Who This Book Is For:
Software developers who want to start working with PowerShell scripts.