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Markdown Basics

59-minute Development Tools Course

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About this Course

Learn the basics of Markdown—a simple, text-to-html tool used to format writing on the Web. It's used to write blogs, forum posts, technical documentation, and more. Whether you're having trouble formatting GitHub README files or want to learn about Markdown in general, this course is a great place to start.

What you'll learn

  • Basic markdown
  • Formatting lists
  • Formatting code with Markdown
  • Formatting links with Markdown
  • Adding images with Markdown
  • Markdown flavors
  • Markdown in the Treehouse Community Forum

Teacher

  • Wade Christensen

    I make things with code and cameras, pixels and paper. I'm a video producer who makes time to design, code, write, and teach the occasional course. I worked as an AV/IT Systems Designer at the University of Oregon College of Education.

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