Markdown Discuss - Feb 2016 - Installing Markdown

I have been assigned to submit a resume for an application to a school using
Markdown. They gave me this link: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
with the following instructions: "Your resume, written in Markdown and
submitted as a GitHub Gist." I've visted the link and downloaded
Markdown. When it didn't have a way to "install" like typical
software, I revisited the site and I downloaded Perl 5.22.00. I've also
downloaded CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Digest-MD5/MD5.pm). Now there is a
little blue icon in the Markdown folder, but all it opens is a black box. It
doesn't open something that should look like this
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oba3Czjyras). I've watched a couple of
tutorials on how to use it and it's fairly simple. I understand all the
'coding' I need to use. The problem is figuring out how to install the
software. I'm not an IT person. I'm good at using programs, not fixing
them or understanding things out-of-the-ordinary computer installations. Can
someone please give me some direction (using layman's terms) to get this up
and moving? Thank you very much for your help. I am using a Windows 7 computer.

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The thing is, if you have been asked to submit a document in markdown format,
you don?t need any software at all, at least not beyond your favorite text
editor (or Github's website itself). Just use .md instead of .txt as the
file extension. Markdown the software takes a Markdown-formatted document and
outputs an HTML document. At that point, you would no longer be submitting a
Markdown doc.

And yes, markdown.pl is a command line tool. You are expected to invoke it from
the shell.

Alan
> On Feb 25, 2016, at 6:57 AM, Erika Knollenberg via Markdown-Discuss
<markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> wrote:
> 
> I have been assigned to submit a resume for an application to a school
using Markdown. They gave me this link:
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ with the following instructions:
"Your resume, written in Markdown and submitted as a GitHub Gist."
I've visted the link and downloaded Markdown. When it didn't have a way
to "install" like typical software, I revisited the site and I
downloaded Perl 5.22.00. I've also downloaded CPAN
(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Digest-MD5/MD5.pm). Now there is a little blue icon
in the Markdown folder, but all it opens is a black box. It doesn't open
something that should look like this
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oba3Czjyras). I've watched a couple of
tutorials on how to use it and it's fairly simple. I understand all the
'coding' I need to use. The problem is figuring out how to install the
software. I'm not an IT person. I'm good at using programs, not fixing
them or understanding things out-of-the-ordinary computer installations. Can
someone please give me some direction (using layman's terms) to get this up
and moving? Thank you very much for your help. I am using a Windows 7 computer.
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