From the course: Learn API Documentation with JSON and XML
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Markdown
- [Instructor] This lesson covers Markdown which is a simple markup language. As part of this course, you'll be asked to write documentation. Markdown is becoming a popular way to write API documentation, so I decided you should learn enough Markdown to use it for the hands-on exercises. What is Markdown? It's a markup language like HTML is, but it's much simpler. It's very easy to learn, and it's much easier to read than HTML. It's used in many content tools such as Sphynx, Jekyll, GitHub, and ReadMe.io just to name a few. Here is a little more information about Markdown. Special tools read in Markdown and convert it to HTML. Markdown has no style information which means that it's the tool that actually controls the final look and feel. There are different Markdown flavors. If there's something you want to do in Markdown that's not supported by that flavor, then just add the HTML to do it right in the Markdown content. Now I'll show you how Markdown works. Usually, lines together are…
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