Organize ideas and collaborate using Markdown, a lightweight language for text formatting.
GitHub is about more than code. It's a platform for software collaboration, and Markdown is one of the most important ways developers can make their communication clear and organized in issues and pull requests. This course will walk you through creating and using headings more effectively, organizing thoughts in bulleted lists, and showing how much work you've completed with checklists. You can even use Markdown to add some depth to your work with the help of emoji, images, and links.
- New developers
- New GitHub users
- Students
- Use Markdown to add lists, images, and links in a comment or text file.
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 work with pull requests as well as edit files. If these things aren't familiar to you, we recommend you take the Introduction to GitHub course, first!
This course takes less than one hour to complete.
- Add headers
- Add an image
- Add a code example
- Make a task list
- Merge your pull request
Simply copy the exercise to your account, then give your favorite Octocat (Mona) about 20 seconds to prepare the first lesson, then refresh the page.
print("Hello, Markdown!")