Android : Running unix commands on windows cmd

i am currently trying to learn how to develop apps for android mobile phones using PhoneGap. i was able to get this book titled "PhoneGap 2x mobile application development". ths book is really nice and self explanatory but the problem i have is when the author want to create d project via the command line, he was using Unix commands because he is running a Unix PC. I am running Windows and to follow his commands using the CMD is a bit hard for me because i dont understand all of his commands.

Below was what he wrote:

mkdir $PROJECT_HOME
cd $PROJECT_HOME
mkdir Android iOS www
cd $PHONEGAP_HOME/lib/android/bin
./create $PROJECT_HOME/Android/QuizTime com.phonegaphotshot.
QuizTime QuizTime
cd $PHONEGAP_HOME/lib/ios/bin
./create $PROJECT_HOME/iOS com.phonegaphotshot.QuizTime QuizTime
cd $PROJECT_HOME
mkdir www/cordova
cp Android/QuizTime/assets/www/cordova-2.2.0.js www/cordova/
cordova-2.2.0-android.js
cp iOS/www/cordova-2.2.0.js www/cordova/cordova-2.2.0-ios.js
cd Android/QuizTime/assets
rm –rf www
ln –s ../../../www
cd ../../../iOS
rm –rf www
ln -s ../www
cd ..
cd www
cp –r $YASMF_DOWNLOAD/framework .
mkdir images models views style
cd ..
cd Android/QuizTime/src/com/phonegaphotshot/QuizTime
edit QuizTime.java
Change "index.html" to "index_android.html"
Save the file.
cd $PROJECT_HOME/iOS/QuizTime

can someone tell me how to do this on the windows cmd. i know what mkdir is but i need a total description and if possible a translation following that if you were to do this on a windows cmd.