Introduction to Markdown for Beginners
In this video, I'll be showing you how to get started using Markdown, which is a popular way to format text into a structured and more presentable format. This tutorial will cover things such as setting headers, paragraphs and text formatting, creating lists, adding images and more.
Markdown is used for a variety of things, such as a README file for a Git repository, documentation, data science, AI prompting & agent skills, writing blog articles and books to name just a few.
If you are new to markdown, this video is for you.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:26 What is Markdown?
00:40 Use Cases for Markdown
01:05 How Does Markdown Work
01:30 Markdown Editing Tools
02:23 Useful Markdown Extensions for VS Code
03:19 Creating a Markdown File
03:56 Headings
05:42 Paragraphs and Sentences
06:18 Bolding Text
06:37 Italicizing Text
06:54 Bolding and Italicizing Text
07:06 Underlining Text
08:07 Links and URLS
08:39 Images
10:01 Numbered (Ordered) and Bullet (Unordered) Lists
11:49: Block Quotes
13:01 Tables - Use Table Generator Site
16:01 Emojis
16:32 Horizontal Lines
17:17 Code Blocks
18:12 Inline Code Block / Section
18:39 Table of Contents
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