Markdown cells

Markdown cells#

Learning objectives#

After working through this topic, you should be able to:

  • Describe what Markdown cells are

  • Explain why adding text cells is useful

  • Create Markdown cells

  • Employ basic Markdown syntax:

    • title, subtitle, subsubtitle, ….

    • text in italics and bold

    • unordered list (- …. - …. )

    • ordered list (1. 1. 1. …)

    • code in md

Materials#

Video with English subtitles:

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Video with German subtitles:

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Additional Materials#

We report below a md cheat-sheet taken from this website. Additional material can also be found here.

Element

Markdown Syntax

Heading

# H1
## H2
### H3

Ordered List

1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item

Unordered List

- First item
- Second item
- Third item

Bold

**bold text**

Italic

*italicized text*

Blockquote

> blockquote_line1
> blockquote_line2

In-line code

`code`

Code block

```python
first_line
second_line
```

Horizontal Rule

—

Link

[title](https://www.example.com)
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