The Windows Command Line Beginner's Guide - Second Edition Kindle Edition

This book has been a big big help with taking the Google-Coursera IT course! While it may be a few years old, ALL the commands are current! I like the way the Commands are written in very readable print, not teeny tiny like some books! The book is very simple yet explicitly written. The commands are organized into well thought out chapters. The first chapter explains how to access the command line several different ways and how to add administrator privileges if needed and why you would use the commands. He also explains all the flags you commonly might add to the commands and why and how to access help features and how to check to see if commands worked! This Author knows his stuff! If you are taking IT courses, want to brush up on IT skills, or want to learn more about what goes on in the Window's background, I highly recommend this book! Excellent! His Ubuntu/Linux command line book is just as well written!

BE FOREWARNED: This book has neither a table of contents, nor an index! As a reference book that makes it pretty useless. That's what I wanted when I bought it, that's not what I got. Amazon's "look Inside" feature skips tp page viii. That "feature" I am sure was designed to hide the fact that a TOC was not included. Many of Amazon's books for sale include an index, regardless of the number of preview pages shown. This one did not. I simply assumed it was purposefully not included, but would be there: after all, this is supposed to be a reference book.To get any benefit out of this book, you will have to read it through start to finish. As I already am familiar with the commands that are addressed in this book - as you may be - I simply wanted a quick review of what I already knew, conveniently packaged, and a look at some commands that I may have missed over the years. I guess I will still have to pull Knittel's tome down from the shelf when I am looking for a command and/or its syntax.

While the book is very good, your sense of the timeline in regards to what happened when is really bad. For the purpose of the book, the timeline is irrelevant, but I imagine that you wanted to add it as filler. Please check your dates, in the early to mid-80s I was working at NASA, we had the greatest and latest. I remember when the first IBM PC came out (prior to DOS) it booted into BASIC and was not really very functional. 256 KB if memory, 4.77 KHz Processor. It wasn't until the late 80s that we were able to get the first clones, and that was only for people who knew exactly what they wanted to do with them, at $3K they were out of reach for most people. I bough my first XT Turbo win in a year of when they came out. If you ran it in Turbo (10KHz) it was incredibly fast back then, but it messed up on anything that was time related, because what few programs available and anything you wrote in BASIC was created a timing error. HOW OLD are you ? not old enough to remember that part of history and your references (whatever they are, are an Anachronism) the book was good, because I didn't want to read countless books to find out about the program line, which has always been very useful. I had always used the command line to perform numerous tasks that were always the same, but had to be done. For that part Thank you, but please don't try to quote history your time line is really distorted. I lived it, and I remember it. The PC computer revolution didn't revolution didn't happen until much later. I built a couple of computers from scratch, that was what you had to do in the 80s. my first package deal was a Timex Sinclair with I (ONE) K of mem. I used it to run Visicalc which was the forerunner to Lotus, and before it was commandeered my MS and called Excel.

This book may be most helpful to those too young to have typed in commands to early PC's running on DOS.It describes how to access the command line process and how to use some of the most basic commands along with a few of the more complicated ones. But the book is small and limited in scope. It is obviously not intended to be a reference manual on the topic.If you could use a refresher on typing in commands to a computer, or are curious about that feature in Windows, it will be useful to you.

I was introduced to computers during the Radio Shack heyday. I'm 1992 I started my degree in electronics. I learned to use MS DOS upon which Windows is based. This book was a trip down memory lane and is still necessary to fully comprehend how to understand Windows from a non graphical standpoint.

The Windows Command Line Beginner's Guide provided me with a much-needed refresher in using the command line. I'd been away from using the command line for some time and this book provided what I needed. I'm not an expert by any means, but this book has moved back beyond the beginner stage. Thank you for a helpful refresher and a valuable reference.

I bought this book because, when I moved a few years back, I threw away most of my computing books; including my two DOS books. I didn't miss them until I started playing with Java and wanted to write a couple of batch files. Getting to the command prompt was no problem but I couldn't remember the various DOS commands and switches. While you can list all those by using the "help" command in the DOS window, there are no real instructions on how to use them. I found what I needed in this book. If you're looking for a DOS instruction manual like the old Peter Norton books, this isn't it. And, the author doesn't claim it to be such. It is, however, sufficient to get you started or serve as a reminder for those of us who've simply forgotten how to use these very useful commands. All in all, Moeller has written a useful book that is more than well worth its $0.99 price.

Ok, so I’m giving 5 stars because it was only priced at 99p. You pay for basic and you get what you pay for.THE GOOD. It explains dos quite well and gives a good grounding in the basics, makes a nice reference book, and that is what I was looking for. I was looking for info on how to write bat files, it is included but only glosses over the subject, a little more detail would have been nice. For a book like this, stick to the basics.THE BAD. A little too much trying to cover systems administration. If you’re a network administrator, you wouldn’t be picking up a 99p short story on the subject, you would be looking at more weighty tomes. There are things covered that could potentially brick your computer. And although caution is advised, in my opinion it is too heavy a subject for a beginners book.

Jonathan starts off the eBook by saying that most people these days are used to using a GUI and not a shell(terminal, command prompt) or whatever you wish to call it. It's true. Me included. I much prefer a GUI but as a Computer tech/geek - it's kinda important to know how to control your PC with commands. I'm approx 30-40 pages into the book and I've learned quite a few commands that I didn't know existed. This is a no-nonsense reference guide and I would have happily paid a few quid for it! Well worth the price.

This is really well laid out, the writer knows not just computing, but also how to write. This book was perfect. I've been using Macs for years, and am now re-learning Windows, and because of this book, I now understand command line much better. Thanks very much for the book, it helped me a lot :)

Its a good reference tool and hand to have on your kinder while working with windows much better than having loads of books around taking up space and more convenient.

Item arrived in good time and was well packaged. Reasonable information. Could do with some detailed practical tips. But okay for reference.