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Key facts
- Kedasha is a Developer Advocate at GitHub where she enjoys sharing the lessons she's learned with the wider developer community
- You can use Markdown syntax, along with some additional HTML tags, to format your writing on GitHub
- The most common place where you’ll encounter Markdown is in your repository’s README file
- Place the text you want to display in the brackets, followed immediately by the URL in parentheses, with no space between the two
Summary
Welcome back to GitHub for Beginners. Once you learn the basics of how to use Markdown, you’ll develop an essential skill that will transform how you write READMEs as well as how to format issues, pull requests, and your agent instruction files. As always, if you prefer to watch the video or want to reference it, they have all of their GitHub for Beginners episodes available on YouTube. Markdown is a lightweight language for formatting plain text. Markdown gives you the ability to create clear, readable documentation.