Pre-reading: Markdown

Due: Dec 1, 2023

Overview

Markup is specifically used to label parts of the document for what they are, rather than how they should be processed.

Wikipedia (Nov 17, 2023)

Markdown

The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. […] To this end, Markdown’s syntax is comprised entirely of punctuation characters, which punctuation characters have been carefully chosen so as to look like what they mean. E.g., asterisks around a word actually look like *emphasis*.

— John Gruber @ Daring Fireball

Your Turn: Interactive Markdown tutorial

  • Open Markdown tutorial
  • Explore Markdown syntax
  • Check out the Code formatting section