PowerShell Fundamentals: A practical foundation in PowerShell commands, modules, data, objects, operators, and control flow

• Build a solid PowerShell foundation through commands, modules, variables, objects, and operators
• Learn to work effectively with the PowerShell pipeline and object-based output
• Write practical logic using comparisons, conditions, switch statements, and loops

• Navigate PowerShell and use its help and command-discovery features
• Find, install, and use PowerShell modules
• Create and manage variables, arrays, and hashtables
• Work with objects, pipelines, filtering, sorting, and formatting
• Use arithmetic, comparison, logical, assignment, and other operators
• Build decision-making logic with if, elseif, else, and switch
• Automate repetitive logic using PowerShell loops
• Use break and continue to control script execution

This book is for aspiring system administrators, IT professionals, developers, students, and complete beginners who want to learn PowerShell from the ground up. It introduces the PowerShell command line and help system before progressing through modules, variables, arrays, hashtables, objects, operators, conditional statements, and loops. Basic familiarity with operating systems is helpful, but no prior PowerShell experience is required.