Is the strong focus on the scripted pipelines necessary?

[carlbalmer]

Almost every lab has a declarative and srciped section. In many of the labs there are no differences (the scripted one feels like just another syntax). This feels a bit repetitive. Furthermore the real differences between scripted and declarative are never explained (only mentioned here and there).

I would suggest:

• Make a section early describing the differences between declarative and scrippted:
  • What does the script block do?
  • No automatic checkout of source control.
  • ...
• In the following chapters only mention the scripted pipeline if there are important differences.
• Move the examples of the scripted pipelines into a folder (similar to the exercise solutions)