Learning Markdown

Markdown is a simple markup language (similar to HTML) that is used to format the README.md files in GitHub. Since I’m planning on using GitHub more, I wanted to learn the basics of Markdown.

In my very first post, Learning Git & GitHub, part of the process was creating a very simple, barebones Markdown file.

I’m going to add some more text to this file and format it using Markdown. Then, I will use my new GIT knowledge to update the README.md file in my GitHub repo.

I watched a very brief introduction to Markdown from Brad Traversy on YouTube.

Learning GIT & GitHub

Last night (technically, early morning – 12AM) I made my first commit to GitHub. Just a README.md file with 2 lines.

I came across this short 2-part introductory series on codeburst.io, called GIT Good. It walked me through the process of creating a local repository, a GitHub repository, creating SSH keys, committing and pushing a file to my GitHub repo.