Communicating using Markdown

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. See a word you don't understand? We've included an emoji 📖 next to some key terms. Click on it to see its definition.

What you'll learn

In this course, you’ll learn how to:

• Use Markdown to add lists, images, and links in a comment or text file
• Determine where and how to use Markdown in a GitHub repository

What you'll build

• A published GitHub Pages site showcasing different types of Markdown that you can edit and use in the future

Prerequisites

In this course you will work with issues and 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!

Projects used

This makes use of the following open source projects. Consider exploring these repos and maybe even making contributions!

• Jekyll: a simple, blog-aware, static site generator.

Audience

Developers, GitHub users, users new to Git, students, managers, teams