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Class 01

Monday morning, June 26 2023

Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset

• a Growth Mindset is the belief that you can improve your current state,
• in order to do so though, one should recognize that no new skill can be achieved without hard work
• Growth Mindset is to be aware not only that change is possible, but that it is only possible through adversity.

Reminders for me to keep myself in Growth Mindset

1. when things start to feel difficult, remember: No Pain, No Gain
2. when I start to ask, “Why can’t I get this”, or generally despair at the amount of knowledge I don’t know, remember: this too shall pass
3. The only thing that’s worse than the discomfort of learning something new, is the stagnation of not learning anything at all

Read: 01 - Learning Markdown

Questions

1. What is Markdown?
2. Why do we use Markdown?
3. What symbol will create a heading in Markdown?
4. How many do you need to create the largest heading?
5. How many do you need to create the smallest heading?
6. When making text bold or italicized for emphasis, it is best practice to use which symbol?
7. How do you create a link with Markdown?
8. What are the three symbols you can use to create an unordered (bulleted) list with Markdown?

Answers

1. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that is used to format and style plain text.
2. Markdown is used because it provides a simple and easy-to-read syntax for creating formatted documents that can be converted to HTML or other formats.
3. Hashtag/hash/pound/octothorp (#) is used to make a heading
4. use one hastag (#)
5. use six hashtags (######)
6. For compatibility, use asterisks to italicize the middle of a word for emphasis.
7. text that can include spaces
8. -, +, and *

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