Formatting and Sharing Your Syllabus with Markdown & GitHub

  • Lee Hachadoorian (Markdown) and Ryan Burns (GitHub)
  • Friday, Oct 30, 3-4:30pm
  • Gladfelter 341

Preparation

The workshop will begin with a short demo, including some browser-based tools. However, if you want to get the most out of the hands-on part of the workshop, you should install pandoc (a Markdown converter) and GitHub Desktop beforehand, as well as creating a GitHub account.

Pandoc

Download the latest version from https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases

  • For Windows use the MSI intaller
  • For Mac use the PKG installer

Pandoc can convert to Word DOC(X), HTML, and a wide variety of formats. For PDF you also need to install LaTeX.

git/GitHub

Install git and create a GitHub account

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