The Basics || Markdown

What is Markdown?

Markdown is a very simple language, mainly used for creating documents and taking notes.

I was surprised at just how easy Markdown was to learn. In this article, I'll be showing you the basics of Markdown.

Headers

For starters, let's talk about headers. Listed below are the inputs for headers 1 through 5.

# H1 Header
## H2 Header
### H3 Header
#### H4 Header
##### H5 Header

That's how you input your headers. Heading 1 has one hashtag, heading 2 has two hashtags, so on and so forth.

Text and Code Entries

Let's briefly touch on text in a Markdown document.
All you have to do is type it into your workspace. No commands, no hastle, just type it right into your document and it will show up as text in a Markdown document.

This is a text entry in Markdown.

If you wanted to add code into a Markdown doc, simply put backticks (``) before and after your line of code.

Alternatively, you can add three backticks (```) before and after a line of code to create a code quote.

Lists

Making lists in Markdown is also very simple! If you wanted to create a list, input the following...

1. This
2. is
3. an
4. ordered
5. list

You can also create bulleted lists by using a "*" instead of a number.

* This
* is
* a
* bulleted
* list

Data Tables

Lastly, here's what you would need to input in order to create a data table.

| column1 | column2 | column3 | column4 |
| ------- | ------- | ------- | ------- |
| row1a   | 1b      | 1c      | 1d      |
| row2a   | 2b      | 2c      | 2d      |

Final Thoughts

Overall, Markdown is a very simple langauge, but it's important to know. It was the first language I ever learned, and it felt great! After all, it's the little victories, right?

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