I'm convinced that developers should love Microsoft's PowerShell scripting language. It's truly powerful, feels familiar, and is available everywhere you look. From chopping up data to automating a production build process or client workflow, PowerShell is up to the task. A host of powerful commandlets, your favorite .NET APIs, and 3rd party modules are there for you. You can iterate quickly when developing scripts in the CLI or in VS Code. Ever since PowerShell Core released, it even runs cross-platform on Linux and macOS!

My talk will cover Beginning to Intermediate use of PowerShell. I will introduce the console, commandlets with verbs and nouns, variables and operators, script files, pipelines, and functions. I'll cover some helpful practices that I've learned as I've worked with PowerShell over the years, highlight some features I've found valuable, and point out some gotchas.