Learning Markdown

What you will learn?

• What is Markdown & why its useful?
• Example syntax
• Which Markdown editor to use?

What?

Markdown is a Markup Language (ML) to add formatting to plain text documents. Created by John Gruber & Aaron Swartz in 2004.

Why?

I was familiar with it, used in GitHub read me file with .md extension (README.md). Increased productivity as its quick to write / blog documents in plain text with nice formatting, including use of code blocks.

Previewing Markdown

• On Visual Studio Code: Ctrl + k v

Example syntax

• Markdown Guide – reference guide
• Markdown Cheatsheet – quick reference
• Mastering Markdown – GitHub version

Markdown editor & usage

Best Markdown editor for linux – pulsar, GNU Emacs, Remarkable, Haroopad, ReText. I decided to use Visual Studio Code as I already have it installed on my Linux / Mac platforms and I use it for Front End coding.