Powershell vs PSKoans

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Automating the tasks related to infrastructure.. (by farismalaeb)

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A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language through Pester unit testing. (by vexx32)

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Powershell		PSKoans
	Project
2	Mentions	56
54	Stars	1,646
-	Growth	-
5.6	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
PowerShell	Language	PowerShell
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Powershell

Posts with mentions or reviews of Powershell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Power Shell not recognizing cmdlet
1 project | /r/PowerShell | 8 Feb 2023

Not a built-in cmdlet. That's a function like this one: https://github.com/farismalaeb/Powershell/tree/master/Set-LogonHours
Blog: Send Password Expiration Notification to the users using Teams Using PowerShell
1 project | /r/SysAdminBlogs | 27 Jul 2022

PSKoans

Posts with mentions or reviews of PSKoans. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.

If you have no experience, learn Powershell (or Python)
2 projects | /r/ITCareerQuestions | 8 Dec 2023

PSKoans
Best resource to learn PowerShell?
4 projects | /r/sysadmin | 1 Jun 2023

PSKoans: https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans
I'm brushing up on powershell, but I've got no projects to apply it to at the moment.
2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 30 May 2023
Good tutorial sites: I need to learn Powershell for work, asking for help..
1 project | /r/PowerShell | 25 May 2023
The weird world of Windows file paths
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2023

It's worth learning at any age, especially now that it is an open-source, cross-platform shell. The PS Koans [1] that recently showed up on HN seemed an interesting way to try to learn it.
[1] https://github.com/vexx32/PSKoans
PSKoans: A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 19 Apr 2023

1 project | /r/hackernews | 19 Apr 2023

1 project | /r/hypeurls | 19 Apr 2023

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2023
GitHub - vexx32/PSKoans: A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language through Pester unit testing.
1 project | /r/FreeITCourses | 15 Apr 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Powershell and PSKoans you can also consider the following projects:

PersistenceSniper - Powershell module that can be used by Blue Teams, Incident Responders and System Administrators to hunt persistences implanted in Windows machines. Official Twitter/X account @PersistSniper. Made with ❤️ by @last0x00 and @dottor_morte

Mailozaurr - Mailozaurr is a PowerShell module that aims to provide SMTP, POP3, IMAP and probably some other ways to interact with Email. Underneath it uses MimeKit and MailKit libraries written by Jeffrey Stedfast.

powershell365 - [PAUSED] 365 (one per day) tips to learn Powershell

PSWritePDF - PowerShell Module to create, edit, split, merge PDF files on Windows / Linux and MacOS

Prepare-VHD-for-Windows-AzureVM - PowerShell Module This repo is intend to help Cloud Admins and anyone that might need an easy and fast way to prepare a VHD to create a Windows Azure VM.

psfalcon - PowerShell for CrowdStrike's OAuth2 APIs

posh-git - A PowerShell environment for Git

DalamudPlugins - This repository hosts plugins for XIVLauncher/Dalamud

Posh-ACME - PowerShell module and ACME client to create certificates from Let's Encrypt (or other ACME CA)

boxstarter - Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages

snek - PowerShell wrapper around Python for .NET to invoke Python from PowerShell

PSWinDocumentation - PowerShell Module that creates Word/Excel/SQL documentation from Active Directory (AD), AWS, Office 365 and others. It's a work in progress!