What is Markdown

• is a way to style text on the web. You control the display of the document; formatting words as bold or italic, adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things
• few non-alphabetic characters thrown in, like # or *.

  Syntax guide

GitHub Flavored Markdow

• GitHub.com uses its own version of the Markdown syntax that provides an additional set of useful features, many of which make it easier to work with content on GitHub.com