A basic introduction to Markdown
A basic introduction to Markdown Being an old school fella, in most of my dealing with code-versioning systems(Clearcase, SVN and CVS), I used to keep references of what each folder did by thinking of good-old names of what each folder and file within did. Sometimes in order for me to take care of boiler-plates or other known issues or improvements, I would go ahead and maintain a README.txt. Starting a few months ago, my interactions with git and git based code started increasing a lot, and over there I started looking at README's with an extension of .md, this piqued my interest a few weeks ago and I started reading up more on this and this blogpost is the culmination of what I've understood md an introduction md stands for markdown which is a lightweight markup language that contains formatting all done via plain text. And when hosted in git, appears in a convienient html format which is easy to read. (I now understand how the details of the