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Learning to program PowerShell with AI
WINDOWS
By Bruce Kriebel
The media has been ablaze with headlines shouting that AI will put programmers out of jobs.
Less discussed is how AI can help professional and even novice programmers learn a new language. An excellent case for this is Windows PowerShell.
PowerShell is, well, powerful. It’s a great tool for writing scripts, especially special-purpose or time-saving scripts that solve tiny problems in a way that allows customization so that you get the exact result you desired. But PowerShell is very different from the command-line language handed down from the earliest days of MS-DOS. That makes learning it daunting.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.45.0, 2023-11-06).
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Why PowerShell?
ISSUE 20.29 • 2023-07-17 WINDOWS
By Bruce Kriebel
For nearly 50 years, we’ve all been using the commands that originated from MS-DOS command line interpreter (CLI).
This wasn’t a bad thing. Even when Windows came along, Microsoft provided a means to get to the CLI (the program cmd.exe) and continued to flesh out its capabilities. I’ll bet nearly everyone reading this has written a simple batch file using those commands.
But there’s a better alternative.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.29.0, 2023-07-17).
This story also appears in our public Newsletter.