Hey everyone, and welcome.
I hope you are excited to start learning about the PowerShell language.
Let's get started looking how to use PowerShell variables.
The whole point of this course is to get you on the
next part in your PowerShell journey.
I'm assuming you already have been through some of the earlier courses in this
track to know how to install and get started with PowerShell,
so I'm assuming you already know how to run basic and simple commands.
And if you can do that, you are ready to move on to this course.
In order to really take advance of PowerShell and to really,
really learn it, remember, it's a language,
so you need to learn that language if you want to do even more with it.
Variables are a key component of the PowerShell syntax,
and so that's why we need to spend some time looking at how those things work.
If you want to get the most out of this course,
hopefully you will want to follow along.
All you really need is just a Windows 10 Desktop.
Presumably you will have installed PowerShell 7,
whatever the current version is from Microsoft.
I believe I'm using version 7.1.3,
but really, for the fundamentals, it's really not going to
matter that much what version you have,
as long as it's PowerShell 7 something. I encourage you
to grab the course download ZIP file.
Even though I'm going to be walking through a lot of demos,
you may want to run through those demos yourself just
to see what the command look like.
You can copy and paste them from the text file into
PowerShell. Or, as an optional feature,
you can install the free VS Code from Microsoft if you need to or
care to, and then you can open up the demo files in VS Code and then
select the lines that you want to run, press F8, and they will run in the PowerShell terminal in VS Code.