Markdown Essentials

Eoin Vaughan — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 05:25:51 +0000

My first post was necessary, otherwise no half pretty posts haha. I would appreciate if anybody could recommend how they resize their images to follow the cover image dimensions.

Markdown Language

Overview

It is a lightweight markup language like HTML (No Tags) with a plain formatting syntax. The ease of use and readability are seen as its main advantages.

Markdown keeps positioning and uses special characters/punctuation marks to format stuff like bold, italics, lists etc.

Uses

It can be converted into HTML/XHTML
Use with README.md files (Github etc, Documentation on a Repo page)
Forums & Blogs (Pieces of content)
Static Site Generators (Gatsby that uses React framework)

Core Markdown
Headings	Lists
Block of code	Images
Emphasis	Block-quotes
Links(Inline & Reference)	Horizontal rules
Paragraphs	Code & Syntax highlighting

Extras

Extensions allow for extra functionality with using markdown, like GitHub has extra extensions that allow for tables and task lists to be generated.
Text Editors have extensions that allow for you to preview the markdown file you have generated (VSCode (Auto-Open Markdown Preview), Atom, SublimeText etc.)

Basics

Italics

Single (Asterisks or Underscore)

_italics_

italics

Emphasis

Double (Asterisks or Underscore)

**Bold**

bold boy

Strikethrough

Double Tilda

~~Computer says NO!~~

~~Computer says NO!~~

Horizontal rule (line)

Triple underscore, hyphens or underscores

---

Add double tildas to get two Horizontal rules, aligned to the left, shortened also so may be used for sub section breakup. Good to know (My Mistake found it, sweet!)

~~____________________________________~~

Escape special characters,

Allows you to include them as normal in your document, see below how I used the \ escape character to include the HTML tag in the header section.

Headers

Like headers in HTML (# = </h1> tag)

#header one
## header two
### header three
#### header four
##### header five
###### header six

header one

header two

header three

header four

header five

header six

links (Inline & Reference)

Inline Link

Square brackets & Curly parentheses
[Text for link](link itself, "Title"(Optional, for hovering over purposes(Doesn't seem to work here, if someone has a solution let me know))

[My GitHub](https://github.com/turbodaly152 "GitHub Profile")

[**My LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eoin-vaughan-6a929aa5/ "Eoin Vaughan LinkedIn Profile")

My GitHub

My LinkedIn

Reference Link

Place the reference at the bottom of the document(hidden), very useful if you want to use the same link a few times in a markdown doc.

Click here for [BC Parks][BCParks]

\[BCParks]: http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/ (Will be hidden, only visible in source markdown code)

Click here for BC Parks

Images(Inline & Reference)

Inline Image

Exclamation mark !

![Image of the price of Babybel here in Vancouver, Crazy](https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipNu6mpDnJNiMfNvAQGm5xHXuIRoxmcV3ucHvgr3)

Reference Image

![Sea the stars][Best horse ever]
![Frankel][Second best horse ever]

\[Best horse ever]:https://tuesdayshorse.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/seathestars.jpg

\[Second best horse ever]: https://images.ctfassets.net/5v3ask2aw4ox/PA-2.11282730/ff78659756ed4b284288ef544f5a727d/2.11282730.jpg

Block-quotes

Use of carat character > results in a highlighted background with a border to the left of the block-quote

>"To infinity and beyond" Buzz Lightyear

"To infinity and beyond" Buzz Lightyear

Span multiple paragraphs, Block-quotes

>Hello to you
>And goodbye
>to you

Hello to you
And goodbye
to you

Lists (Ordered and Unordered)

Use asterisk (with space) for unordered lists
AND
\1. for ordered lists

* Chocolate fingers
* Chocolate buttons
* Chocolate digestives

Chocolate fingers
Chocolate buttons
Chocolate digestives

1. Chocolate fingers
1. Chocolate buttons
1. Chocolate digestives

Chocolate fingers
Chocolate buttons
Chocolate digestives

Can use indentation to have nested list items, must find out how to make indentation default to 1.1, 1,2, 1.1.2 etc.?

1. Chocolate fingers
 1. Chocolate buttons
1. Chocolate digestives

Chocolate fingers
1. Chocolate buttons
Chocolate digestives

Chocolate fingers
- Chocolate buttons
Chocolate digestives

To include text within a bulletpoint you may include it underneath with 2 indentations



* Chocolate fingers

* Chocolate buttons
* Chocolate digestives

Me, Myself and Irene

Eoin Vaughan — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 05:22:55 +0000

Watch me grow

Hey everybody, this is my first post on this platform. My hope is to document my learning all in one place and figured this would be a great place for that.

I'm working at present as a data manager and I'm really feeling that I need to add many more strings to my bow, so I have enrolled in a 10 week part time data scientist role here in Vancouver and it starts in 2 weeks. So I have dived into prepping for it since the new year. I'm excited to get hands on with assignments and projects that hopefully will help me gain a better understanding of what all this data collection is for.

The course will predominately use python for programming which is great as I know the community for this language are awesome. I hope to ask lots of questions on the topic and read the many great posts on the subject here.

Thanks in advance as I know I will be helped out a lot on my way, and hopefully down the line repay that to other newbies.

DEV Community: Eoin Vaughan