Hashtags, and colons, and brackets, oh my! As a non-techy budding techie, when I see a block of text adorned with slashes and dashes, and sticks and stars, my stomach starts to sink, and an implacable fog rolls over my brain. But change is coming has arrived like an asterisk on either side of a bloated verb, as I am now proudly under the tutelage of Scrimba, and I'm about to crack the code that is Markdown.
Accelerated by engaging introductory instruction and the simplicity of this discrete text conditioner, my trek toward solid understanding is already underway. Triple dashes are beginning to look like clean line breaks, greater-than signs are taking on a whole new meaning, and my greenness is beginning to splay, revealing a snappy little language underneath.
"Fear is a precursor to failure." - J. Reath
Within modest morsels of Markdown, I'm beginning to play favorites. Scan my top 3 list of syntactical showstoppers:
In prime position is the blockquote, with its pristine placement of inspiration or wisdom through the simple click of a couple of keys.
