##A Brief Introduction to Markdown
If you've ever wondered why some pieces of texts are littered with hashtags and asterixes it is probably because you are looking at something called Markdown. Markdown is a way of adding styling information (bold, italic, size etc.) to the very text itself. Created by John Gruber in 2004, its use has become widespread, being now built-in to sites like Reddit and Github. This tutorial is meant to introduce a basic understanding of Markdown literacy through teaching how to make headings and give emphasis to text.
###Headings
Headings are denoted by the # sign and get smaller according to amount of # signs you use.
Here are some examples of them in action:
#In order ##to solidify ###your header knowledge ####please write a #####sentance using each header size ######you can use this document or an online plain-text editor like https://stackedit.io/editor or http://dillinger.io/
####Voila! Weren't headers easy?!
###Emphasis
Giving emphasis to words through bold and italic is a crucial part of writing and here's how you do it in Markdown:
Italics are done with one asterix on either side like so: MAKE ME ITALIAN
Bold is done with two asterixes on either side: MAKE ME BOLD
If you wanna go wild and do ITALICS and BOLD then put double asterixes and underscores around the desired word: SO MUCH EMPHASIS
Lastly let's say you really want to just cross something out, you might want to use a strike through,
made by putting two tildes on either side of the word/sentance: no longer a thing
Now practice your Markdown emphasis by giving the noted emphasis to the sentance below:
The [quick brown fox] [BOLD THIS] [decides to change the age-old coding practice line and] [STRIKETHROUGH THIS] jumps [back] [STRIKETHROUGH THIS] over the [lazy] [BOLD + ITALICS] dog.
Hope that the tutorial was helpful and stay bold!
This tutorial was inspired in part by Adam P's Markdown Cheatsheet on Github: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet