- Read the 2014 Winter SG Players Guide
- Sharpen your skills by:
- Taking the following courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) with Jeffrey Snover, the inventor of PowerShell and MVP Jason Helmick:
- Getting Started with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start
- Advanced Tools and Scripting with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start
- Watching on youtube the free HD videos MVP Don Jones made for SAPIEN: use this link
- Reading books like Mike did
- Checking the event titles and trying to guess what it could be about (registry, log files, active directory, acl,…). Learn more on The Event Authors by following this link
- Reviewing previous years preparation study guides written by Ed Wilson, the Hey Scripting Guy
- Reading the PowershellTips monthly volumes using this link
- Be timely informed by
- Reading anything from this thread http://powershell.org/wp/category/announcements/scripting-games/ (everything you need to know is there!)
- Following coaches and judges (both RSS feed and twitter accounts)
- Following the twitter hashtag #PSHGames
- Prepare your toolbox
- By getting the latest version of PowerShell
- By testing some collaboration tools to see how you’ll collaborate with your teammates: GitHub, PoshCode.org, IRC, TFS, Google Docs, Microsoft SkyDrive, DropBox,…
- Last but not least be on time
- Review the games schedule
- As it’s up to you to translate UTC times in your local time, have some nifty pieces of code ready
Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches
2012 Scripting Games Study Guide: A Resource for Learning PowerShell
Introducing the Coaches of the 2014 Winter Scripting Games
Scripting Games FAQ: PowerShell Versions
How to Install Windows PowerShell 4.0
# When will event 1 start in my local time zone? (Get-Date '2014-01-19 01:00:00').ToLocalTime() # How long until event 1 is due? New-TimeSpan -End ([datetime]'2014-01-26 01:00:00').ToLocalTime()
Don’t forget to have fun 😎
PS: …and if you don’t have time and/or aren’t on holidays, do at least what’s written in green (point 1. and 3.1).
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