This exhaustive Windows PowerShell tutorial is perfect for beginners who want to learn how to script in a quick and easy manner. Take a look!

PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks. Here's a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics.

Windows PowerShell ISE is a GUI-based application. You can use it to wite, run, and edit multiple scripts and commands in different tabs.

One book should be good enough to start - I usually recommend Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches (Ace mentioned this) for anyone new to code and scripting, PowerShell in Action v2 for ...