Programming By Stealth

PBS Tidbit 13 — PowerShell Tames Monty


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Bart had an itch to scratch, and he decided to scratch it with PowerShell. You'll remember that he gave us a teaser Tidbit seven months ago in Tidbit 11, and we still haven't started learning PowerShell so this one is yet another teaser. The itch he had was trying to understand the "Monty Hall Problem" [en.wikipedia.org/...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem), and by writing a script to simulate a thousand rounds of the game, he was able to finally understand the solution. It is great fun hearing Bart describe how he spent the first few days of his annual leave programming ... because it was fun!

You can find Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes and the audio podcast at pbs.bartificer.net.

Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: PBS_2025_07_19

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