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Virendra Khorwal
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Basic Intro to Markdown or .md

#github #markdown

Hey there 👋, I am back with another interesting topic. Markdown.

I will show you how to write markdown and where to write markdown.

What is Markdown?

According to www.markdownguide.org, it is a light weighted markup.
No need to remember this. It is basically a language or more precisely a markup language which use to document your code on github or sometimes people use it for their mathematical work.

The work we do with some word editor like ms-word or google docs, we can do with it.
And remember different editor preview markdown differently.

Where to write?

If you are fan of vs-code like me then, there is an extension for it so, there whatever you write you can preview it. Markdown Preview Enhanced
If you don't use vs-code, no worry that's not end of world. You can use StackEdit for online mode or Typora for offline use.

Basic Syntax of Markdown

For Heading 

# Heading 1 ## Heading 2 ### Heading 3 #### Heading 4 ##### Heading 5 ###### Heading 6
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Heading

Paragraph 

This is Paragraph
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Paragraph

Text Style 

This is **Bold** text. This is *italic* text. This is ***italic bold*** text.
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Text Style

Line 

*** --- ___
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Line

Blockquotes 

> Block Quotes > > Nested Block Quote > >> Another Nested Block Quote
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Blockquotes

For Images 

![Alt Text](Place image link here)
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For code

Code

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