Installing Markdown

Erika Knollenberg
Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:57:41 -0000

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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