Sorry guys, as Android developers, your first impression is that MD stands for Material Design, which is disappointing. By MD, I mean Markdown. Maybe you’ve heard of it or you’re using it now, but believe me, It’ll make you know Markdown all over again.

If you haven’t heard Markdown yet, you’re out. If you’ve heard Markdown and you’re already using it, congratulations, don’t you feel great?

What is a Markdown?

In short, Markdown is a must-have writing format for programmers! Do you still document in Word? It’s fucking low. Get rid of it. From now on, right now, learn Markdown.

What are the benefits of Markdown?

  • Grammar is simple

  • No more focus on typography

  • Compatible with HTML

  • Could be more useful

Grammar is simple

Markdown syntax is very simple, even if you are a stranger, you can learn it in a day or even half a day. Here’s a good tutorial for learning Markdown:

http://joinwee.com/lesson/10/

No more focus on typography

We had to worry about typography in damn Word, and we had to worry about styling in HTML, but with Markdown we didn’t have to spend time on typography anymore.

Compatible with HTML

Markdown can be easily converted to HTML and is even directly compatible with HTML syntax, which is cool!

More and more useful

1. Markdown is widely used. The most common one is blog writing.

2. All our API documents were completed with Markdown and related API documents were generated.

3. All the requirement documents of our Mint project are also based on Markdown. Yes, our product manager must know Markdown.

4. The PPT I used in this Mint Android exchange conference was also completed by Markdown. Can you imagine that? Other guests all use PPT or Keynote, but I only prefer Markdown. I completed my PPT with pure Markdown based on GitHub Pages + reveal. js and posted it to my blog, so that you can directly access it online. How cool is that?

I have open source it to GitHub, and I plan to put all my PPT sharing on it in the future. If you are interested, you can go to GitHub to check it.

Address:https://github.com/stormzhang/slides

5. I also wrote this post about “Can you Really Write a Resume? Has anyone asked if you can use Markdown to write your resume? For your information, here are some popular templates for Markdown resume writing.

Address:https://github.com/geekcompany/ResumeSample

Finally, there are plenty of Markdown editors out there, dillinger, MarkdownPad, Smark, and even some Chrome plugins, to name a few. What do I use? I definitely use Sublime. Technically Sublime is a code editor, not a Markdown editor, but I don’t need a Markdown editor.

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