markdown-guide.md

Markdown Guide

About

This is a guide to markdown.

See accompanying video tutorial here: Markdown demo with atom.io and markdown preview

Syntax

now here's the best part.

I'm writing text, nothing special. BUT but but, if we start using "markdown" syntax, we can start transforming text into "styled" text.

for example, I'm a header 1

i'm a header 2

I'm a header 3

I'm a header 4

Isn't that neat?

You might be wondering, what other syntactical syntactics might be available?

Let's check out some other stuff.

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?

• one
• two
• threeeee!

^^ see that's a list up there

These carets make these cool grey "quotes"

here's a super cool quote that you might want to use sometimes to differentiate your text.

There are other commands like showing "code blocks"

you can use these backticks:

everything
inside
here

will take the formatting you
tell it to

you can even tell which language you want your code to render in like this:

var happy = true
var unhappy = false


function greetings(input){
  return "i am" + input
}

See those pretty colors?

Ok, what else do we have? We can make cool links like this:

link to github

You can also add images like this:

Magic!!! 🌈

See, you can add lots of stuff on a page in a structured way using markdown.

It's fast, renders nicely in the browser, and it's flat text, so none of this crazy binary stuff that gets all garbly.

now go forth and markdown your life! 🙆‍♂️ 🌴🌈

Thanks for watching!