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Markdown Crash Course

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In this video we will discuss what Markdown is, what it is used for and we will jump into VSCode and learn the entire syntax in around 10 minutes. We will also push to a Github repo to see what it looks like there. Sponsor: Coding Dojo http://www.codingdojo.com/l/yt/tr Cheat Sheet Gist: https://gist.github.com/bradtraversy/547a7bbf35ffba1561706e161a50b05a 💖 Become a Patron: Show support & get perks! http://www.patreon.com/traversymedia Website & Udemy Courses http://www.traversymedia.com Follow Traversy Media: http://www.facebook.com/traversymedia http://www.twitter.com/traversymedia http://www.instagram.com/traversymedia The Developer Hangout: Public Discord Server https://discord.gg/developers

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'start': 368.08, 'duration': 2.041}, {'end': 376.286, 'text': 'So for headings, we use the number sign or pound sign, hashtag, whatever you want to call this.', 'start': 370.721, 'duration': 5.565}, {'end': 380.729, 'text': "And if we just do one, that's going to give us basically an H1.", 'start': 376.966, 'duration': 3.763}, {'end': 382.69, 'text': "It's going to give us the largest heading.", 'start': 381.029, 'duration': 1.661}, {'end': 386.693, 'text': 'Okay, if we want to do an H2, we can do two.', 'start': 382.71, 'duration': 3.983}, {'end': 389.695, 'text': 'Oops, let me close this up here.', 'start': 387.293, 'duration': 2.402}, {'end': 391.836, 'text': 'I hate these notifications.', 'start': 389.715, 'duration': 2.121}, {'end': 398.7, 'text': 'If we wanted to do three, say heading three and four, five.', 'start': 392.676, 'duration': 6.024}, {'end': 408.351, 'text': 'and six.', 'start': 407.47, 'duration': 0.881}, {'end': 412.094, 'text': "okay, so there's our headings.", 'start': 408.351, 'duration': 3.743}, {'end': 413.595, 'text': 'so very, very easy.', 'start': 412.094, 'duration': 1.501}, {'end': 416.777, 'text': "next thing we're going to look at is some emphasis.", 'start': 413.595, 'duration': 3.182}], 'summary': 'The tutorial covers using headings and emphasis in html, with examples of h1 to h6 tags.', 'duration': 64.349, 'max_score': 352.428, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/HUBNt18RFbo/pics/HUBNt18RFbo352428.jpg'}, {'end': 1129.248, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1103.226, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 1109.163, 'text': 'and paste that in and it gets converted and you can see all the HTML with all the tags.', 'start': 1103.226, 'duration': 5.937}, {'end': 1119.722, 'text': "Alright. so hopefully this gave you a good idea of what Markdown is, what it's used for and, of course, the syntax, which is very, very easy.", 'start': 1110.916, 'duration': 8.806}, {'end': 1122.544, 'text': "It's really easy to 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