Developers are now playing with lots of languages to make the web a better place to view. Markdown is the language, used by developers of various interest to make the github a better place.

History of Markdown

A plain-text-formatting syntax, created in 2004 by John Gruber with Aaron Swartz. Often used for formatting readme files, for writing messages in online discussion forums, and to create rich text using a plain text editor.

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Pros

• Provides semantic meaning in a simple way
• Easy to learn ,implement and quick
• Readability
• Platform-agnostic

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Let's learn Markdown and for those who know already, refresh!!!

Start with text

1. Bold enclose text with double asterisk (**) on both sides
2. italic enclose text with (_) on both sides
3. strikethrough enclose text with double tilde (~~) on both sides

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Let's see about #######headers

There are six headers ranging from header1 larger size to header6 smallest header. Each header is preceedded with equal number of hash/number sign(#)

Example:-

heading1

heading2

heading3

heading4

heading5

heading6

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To show an image

Exclamation mark (!) followed by Any text related to image enclosed in square brackets [image-text] followed by image url enclosed in parenthesis (image-url.jpg)

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Link is similar to images

Place a text to show enclosed in square brackets [view-text] followed by website url enclosed in parenthesis (web-url)

Learn Markdown Basics

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