Summary

In this module, you learned about Markdown and GitHub-flavored Markdown to communicate more expressively throughout GitHub.

You learned:

• How to use Markdown to add lists, images, and links in a comment or text file.
• Where and how to use Markdown in a GitHub repository.
• Syntax extensions available in GitHub (GitHub-flavored Markdown).

Now that you know how to use Markdown on GitHub, learn to Create and host web sites by using GitHub Pages.

Learn more

Here are some links to more information on the topics we discussed in this module.

• Basic writing and formatting syntax
• GitHub-Flavored Markdown Spec
• Writing on GitHub
• GitHub Markdown emojis
• Autolinked references and URLs

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