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Markdown Basics For The Newb `# is the command for heading 1`

What is Markdown? `## is the command for heading 2`

Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world’s most popular markup languages.
Who Is John Gruber?

How is Markdown different?

Markdown is not a WYSIWYG because you don’t click buttones (thing Microsoft Word for stylistic changes) and see an immediate result.
In Markdown we use syntax (the set of rules that define what the various combinations of symbols mean) to modify the text, appearance and style of the file display to the end user.

What are some basic commands and what do they do?

Command	Example	Output
` `	`Bold`	Bold
`* *`	`Italics`	Italics
`[txt](url)`	`[Click Here](Link URL)`	Click Here

_{A best practice for bold and italics is to always use the asterisk!}

Pretty Cool So Far! But What if I want something more visually engaging?

Best to add a couple images! `### is the command for heading 3`

laugh it off

buy my book <img src="pics/bookcover.PNG" alt="laugh it off" width="25%" height="25%"/> <img src="pics/smile.png" alt="laugh it off" width="25%" height="25%"/>

Looking Good! But how did you do that?! The markdown image code didn’t allow me to resize images!

<img src="copy and paste the url of the image directly uploaded to github here" width=xx% height=xx%/>

But why do we use Markdown?

Markdown can be used for everything! Websites, documents, notes, you name it!
Markdown interacts well across most platforms! iOS, Microsoft, etc.
Can be read by any text editor making it future proof!

_{Nice list! You can use - * or + to make unordered lists!}