A few months back, I purchased a Udemy course on PowerShell. I’ve been fascinated with scripting. My experience with PowerShell, and scripting in general, is used as a last resort when troubleshooting issues for Windows Computers. I would do my google search to tech blogs and find a script or cmdlet to run. I used this process with little to no knowledge of what is going on.
Now, with my journey for development, i’m deciding to look into scripting in parallel of my development journey. The concepts are similar since PowerShell utilizes variables, operators, conditional statement, and other things similar to programming languages. It just serves a slightly different purpose.
Scripting also comes in handy with development for automation, administrative setting changes, and for tools. Tools i specifically mean is like Github where there is a shell to run when working with version control of your applications.
In the IT world, it becomes very handy in automating tasks as well when working with certain features like Active Directory. I’ve ran into cases where we needed to use a shell environment to enable a feature for my client’s Office 365 tenant.
All in all, this skill of mastering scripting will only benefit. It’s just a matter of fitting it in the study schedule. As i come across things, I will post here in hopes of helping others