Having developed applications on many different platforms with just as many different languages over the years. Which lead to me being introduced to mobile devices. I started doing web development with this new markup language and learned how to connect web sites to databases with Active Server Pages and Visual Basic. I eventually started working with PC's and discovered the internet in the early 1990's and the wonderful world of HTML. I wrote many computer games out of the back of magazines back then for fun. I was introduced to computers at a young age when the latest computers consisted of Vic 20's and Commodore 64's. This knowledge will make using Markdown easier so that working with it as a programmer or technical writer your documents will be available without being in a proprietary format. Once students have completed the course they will have the opportunity to download a Markdown Cheat Sheet to have for future reference while using Markdown in their documents. We will then move into extended syntax that has been implemented by other processors to extend their products or to make other formats available. Students will be exposed to all the basic syntax and explained how to implement as well as the uses demonstrated for them to follow along. Many people make use of Markdown when writing README documents or other documentation as well as Reddit makes use of it when writing posts on their website.

They will also learn of other editors and other uses for Markdown. Students will have the opportunity to practice what they are learning, within the online Dillinger Markdown Editor. Learn Markdown from scratch covers the basic syntax from John Gruber as well as covering many of the extended syntax offered by other Markdown processors.

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