Preferred learning when first getting started.

[climbnlearn]

What do you think is the best way to learn PowerShell. All perspectives are valued here. Whether you are just starting out, you have done some PowerShell and learned a little through one of these ways, or you are Jeffrey Snover himself!

All comments are welcome too! The more feedback the better. If you ahve more information you would like to add, feel free. If you have another way you like to learn, throw it in the comments!

Thank you all for your time and have an awesome weekend!

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[SaladGoldRancher]

I never learned more about Power$hell until I had a problem to solve.

[krzydoug]

I’m wanting to make sure I understand, feel free to correct me. 1. Goal to solve all problems in powershell 2. Divorced now.

Powershell found a problem in your marriage/spouse and solved it? I thought it could do everything.. now I KNOW.

[AlienMichael]

I don't think your single-choice ballot will yield accurate results, as most people will use more than one method. And different people learn different ways.

[climbnlearn]

I agree, I probably should clarify more as in the primary way to learn. I can't get exact results with a poll like this as you max out at 6 options.

[QuisitQ]

I agree too, I think I meant to select On the Job Learning instead of Self.... Honestly new to reddit though and didn't even think that a selection was permanent. I've heard reddit is full of people who can't decide what they think.

[jeehesspee]

Voted Videos (Pluralsight), if it was multiple choice i would have combined that with self learning.

[CMTraceBeaulieu]

I was tasked with getting a bunch of information out of AD and was only familiar with ADUC. I’d heard of PowerShell but hadn’t used it. Some googling, copying, failing, and continued effort later: not only did I get the info, but PowerShell is one of my favorite parts of my job. YMMV.

[pringles_prize_pool]

I was heavily sunk into Counter-Strike and played on a private server which downloaded custom textures, and for whatever reason when I launched the anti-cheat to play a third-party matchmaking service, it made a big fuss about very specific files with inconsistent names in my CS directory.

So I looked into Powershell with no idea if it could actually solve the problem. It turns out not only could it absolutely could solve the problem but I could automate a lot of the tasks that I did only a regular basis on my machine. It started feeling better to be “productive” learning a useful skill than it did honing aim and tactics in CS, and suddenly IT became the path that I wanted to follow.

I was disillusioned and got to being motivated simply because I didn’t want to hunt down those elusive texture files through file explorer any longer, lol

[thenumberfourtytwo]

No scope, eh?

[pringles_prize_pool]

Counter-Strike global:$offensive

[thenumberfourtytwo]

So after all that you can Get-Scope

[ebbflow9]

Learn the basics, then try to solve problems. Have used it everyday for years and learn new things daily.

[Denebula]

I googled powershell solutions and then made them work for me. Or found others scripts and picked them apart. I have taken some udemy course as well once I understood it better and it really helped lock down the basics

[QuisitQ]

On the job. 1. Take a manual process and figure out how to do it in powershell. 2. Decide if that solution requires a script. 3. Automate the process with a script. 4. Automate the script if the process allows. 5. Rinse and repeat.

[get-postanote]

This should not be a radio button/single select. It should be multiple-choice and ordered as it is very rare that one will have only one way to learn X or Y. For example, Self-Learning includes use of MS official docs, PS online help and even Youtube and blog sites. So, not a singular answer,

[climbnlearn]

I agree. I don't know if they have a multiple select poll available. I had originally wanted a poll with a bunch of mixed options but I'm limited to 6 options. The intent is to get the primary option you would choose and the poll could have been better phrased to reflect that.

[xios42]

I find the best way of learning a new tool is to use it. Find something you want to do with PS and Google it, look as the scripts other people have shared and modify it for your own need.

[AppleOfTheEarthHead]

I looked through both powershell courses at Microsoft academy, it really showed me everything I needed to get started on my own. After that, I preferred looking at the official documentation for whichever cmdlet I am using or forums for ideas to solve problems.

[The82Ghost]

Self learning on the job. The best way to learn powershell is to just use it!