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Hi, everyone.

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This is Jeff Hicks, and welcome to my course, Learning the PowerShell Language.

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I'm a veteran IT professional and a longtime PowerShell author and educator.

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I've authored many courses for Pluralsight over the years,

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and I'm excited to tell you all about my latest project.

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This course is designed for IT professionals just

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getting started with PowerShell 7,

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which is the next generation of PowerShell that runs not only on Windows,

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but cross‑platform.

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In other words, once you learn the PowerShell language,

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you can run it on Windows, Linux, or Mac.

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The demonstrations in this course are done in Windows,

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but the concepts and techniques apply cross‑platform.

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Specifically,

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this course is intended to lay the foundation for the PowerShell language.

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This means understanding its syntax, operators, and constructs.

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The emphasis in the course is mastering the language at

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an interactive PowerShell prompt.

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You need to understand how to use PowerShell before

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you can begin scripting with it.

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This means you need to learn and understand how to use variables in PowerShell,

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how to use PowerShell's operators, especially,

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those new ones introduced in PowerShell 7,

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how to work with arrays and hash tables, the importance of script

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blocks, and how to take advantage of the object nature of PowerShell.

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When you're finished with this course, you should be able to run

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effective and complex PowerShell commands in the console to accomplish

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basic IT management tasks.

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Learning the PowerShell language is no different than learning any

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other foreign language. You need a foundation in the basics and then

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lots of practice. So come join me and see for yourself how easy it is to learn the PowerShell language.