GitHub Flavored Markdown Online Course

GitHub Flavored Markdown Online Course

Unlock the full potential of GitHub-Flavored Markdown with this comprehensive course designed to enhance your documentation skills. You’ll start with the basics of Markdown, its advantages over HTML, and how GitHub-Flavored Markdown simplifies formatting tasks. Step-by-step lessons cover environment setup, text styling, links, headings, blockquotes, and lists. As you advance, you’ll master adding images, creating tables, task lists, inline code, and code blocks for professional documentation. With practical demonstrations throughout, you’ll gain hands-on experience applying these techniques in real-world scenarios. By the end of the course, you’ll be confident in creating clear, structured, and professional documentation using GitHub-Flavored Markdown.

Who should take this Course?

The GitHub Flavored Markdown Online Course is ideal for developers, technical writers, and open-source contributors who want to effectively create and format documentation, README files, and wikis using Markdown on GitHub. It is also suitable for students, content creators, and professionals seeking to enhance collaboration, improve project documentation, and communicate more clearly in development environments.

What you will learn

• Understand the basics and advantages of GitHub-Flavored Markdown.
• Set up your environment for efficient Markdown editing.
• Apply various text formatting techniques, including italicizing, bolding, and striking through.
• Create external and internal links, blockquotes, and underlined headings.
• Develop lists, add images, and create images with links.
• Arrange information in tables and inline code.

Course Outline

Fundamentals

• Overview
• Writing Markdown

Text

• Italicizing Text
• Bolding Text
• Striking Through Text
• Adding an External Link
• Creating Headings
• Creating a Blockquote
• Creating a Heading with Underline
• Adding an Internal Link

Lists

• Creating Lists

Images

• Adding an Image
• Creating an Image with a Link

Tables

• Creating a Table

Code

• Inlining Code
• Creating a Code Block

Above and Beyond

• Creating a Task List