GitHub Markdown

Now that you’ve had the chance to try out some practical tasks in Git and see some of the fantastic open source projects that are available through GitHub, in this week you’ll be learning how to write your own documentation using Markdown language.

You will use basic Markdown tags to format text and create a basic Markdown document combining multiple tags.

In this video, Amy introduces you to GitHub markdown. She guides you through the creation of your first readme files on GitHub, explains the importance of these files, and introduces you to the special language used for this purpose – GitHub markdown.

This video provides you with a hands-on demonstration of how to use different tags, create lists, add images, and even incorporate emojis into your markdown files. We also emphasise the importance of accessibility in your readme files. By the end of this video, you will have a solid understanding of how to use markdown to produce various types of documentation on GitHub.