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Discussion on: I want to start writing about development, but I’m a beginner. Is this is a bad idea?

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Sam Watkins

Go for it, present it like a public diary. Be clear that you're a beginner, and ask for feedback. You can learn from people's comments. You can even edit your posts to improve them, based on the comments, until they are valuable resources for other people to learn from.

Don't take it too hard if some people are rude or disrespectful; that reflects badly on them, not on you. I think that this dev.to community is very friendly and supportive, so it shouldn't be a big problem here.

It is very valuable to keep a diary, and even more valuable to blog in public about a project or learning journey from the very beginning. You can make friends and even build a community. You will do better work because you are presenting it to the public. You will learn things more thoroughly as you explain them in your posts. Other people might want to help you or participate in some way. You blog series could become the basis of a book.

A great example of this is the dev log for the video game Gunpoint.

I'm doing something like this myself at the moment, blogging about game dev with my kids, and I've been very much enjoying it.