reading-notes

Answering questions

1. What is Markdown? Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents.

2. Why do we use Markdown? Markdown is portable. Files containing Markdown-formatted text can be opened using virtually any application. Markdown is platform independent. You can create Markdown-formatted text on any device running any operating system. Markdown is future proof. Even if the application you’re using stops working at some point in the future, you’ll still be able to read your Markdown-formatted text using a text editing application.*

3. What symbol will create a heading in Markdown? #
   1. How many do you need to create the largest heading? One
   2. How many do you need to create the smallest heading? Six

4. When making text bold or italicized for emphasis, it is best practice to use which symbol? Asterisks (*)

5. How do you create a link with Markdown? name of document

6. What are the three symbols you can use to create an unordered bulleted list with Markdown? Asterisks, Plus Sign, Minus sign.