We have just come to the end of another year for the Microsoft Scripting Games. It was another exciting event and one in which I managed to take part in full this year... well not quite, I missed one deadline due to not knowing what day it was, and the other to having been traveling for most of the last day I had to write and submit it on (my fault for leaving it 'til the last minute). Still that is better than the 1 script I had time to submit last year.
This year as I'm still fairly new to PowerShell and generally work in the console rather than Scripting I enter in the Beginner Category. Having finished in the top half of the board I intent to train for the next year to participate in the advanced games...
Until then I need to learn from this years scripts and see where I did well, where others did well, and where failing occurred...
Lesson 1 I shall take from this years games is the requirement for reusable code... in the most part this required use of Advanced Functions. These aren't as scary as they sound. I won't go into how to use them now but I do plan to write alot about that in the future. I don't want to write this until I'm clearer on this myself and I am not blogging from my phone.
Lesson 2 add help into your Scripting. Within you functions open the help text with <# help info >
I will follow up with more lessons later on, but, for now take a look at some of the entries both high and low staring and read the scripts and comments to discover more...
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