LaunchPad
Understanding Markdown
Communicate and collaborate using Markdown
About 20 minutes
Beginner
Overview
Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. More simply put, Markdown is a way to write content for the web and one of the most important ways developers can make their communication clear and organized in issues and pull requests. This Experience walks you through the common uses of Markdown in GitHub so that you can feel confident communicating on the platform.
About this Experience
We'll update a plain text file and add Markdown formatting, and you can use this file to start your own GitHub Pages site. In this course, you will
- Add headers and an image
- Add a code example
- Make a task list
- Merge your pull request
Take Action
Fork this repo to start communicating and collaborating with Markdown today!
ACTION ITEM
Understanding and using Markdown
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