Skip to content

DEV Community

Beginners

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Chinese Proverb

submission guidelines

UPDATED AUGUST 2, 2019

This tag is dedicated to beginners to programming, development, networking, or to a particular language. Everything should be geared towards that!

For Questions...

Consider using this tag along with #help, if...

You are new to a language, or to programming in general,
You want an explanation with NO prerequisite knowledge required.
You want insight from more experienced developers.

Please do not use this tag if you are merely new to a tool, library, or framework.

See also, #explainlikeimfive

For Articles...

Posts should be specifically geared towards true beginners (experience level 0-2 out of 10).
Posts should require NO prerequisite knowledge, except perhaps general (language-agnostic) essentials of programming.
Posts should NOT merely be for beginners to a tool, library, or framework.

If your article does not meet these qualifications, please select a different tag.

Promotional Rules

Posts should NOT primarily promote an external work. This is what Listings is for.
Otherwise accepable posts MAY include a brief (1-2 sentence) plug for another resource at the bottom.
Resource lists ARE acceptable if they follow these rules:
- Include at least 3 distinct authors/creators.
- Clearly indicate which resources are FREE, which require PII, and which cost money.
- Do not use personal affiliate links to monetize.
- Indicate at the top that the article contains promotional links.

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.

Oct 31 '24

Notes from the All Things Open conference USA

#opensource #beginners #career #learning

2 min read

Vaibhav Dwivedi

Oct 31 '24

AVKit Integration in iOS 18 - #30DaysOfSwift

#beginners #tutorial #swift #swiftui

1 min read

Igor Venturelli

Oct 31 '24

Spring Boot and RabbitMQ: Messaging with AMQP

#spring #rabbitmq #amqp #beginners

4 min read

Ben Link

Oct 31 '24

The Adventures of Blink S2e8: Fast-Forward to a Working Game (with Snyk Integration!)

#python #tkinter #beginners #buildinpublic

5 min read

Oct 30 '24

Top 50 PHP Libraries You Haven't Heard Of (But Should Be Using!)

#webdev #php #beginners #resources

18 min read

Oct 31 '24

Phoneme Fine-Tuning Boosts Speech AI: Simple Technique Unlocks Language Model Potential

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

3 min read

Oct 31 '24

LLMs Know More Than They Show: Intrinsic Representation of Hallucinations Revealed

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

3 min read

Oct 31 '24

Chain-of-Thought overthinking? When intuition trumps systematic reasoning, step-by-step AI struggles

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

4 min read

Oct 31 '24

Watermarking Protects Language Models from Misuse and Extraction Attacks

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

3 min read

Oct 31 '24

Reliable Machine Learning: Addressing Questionable Practices in ML Research

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

4 min read

Oct 31 '24

AI Hallucinates Missing Image Details for Better Compression

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

4 min read

Oct 31 '24

LLM-Powered Coding: Demystifying AI Agents for Software Engineering

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

4 min read

Oct 31 '24

Unearthing Universal Feature Geometries: Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Crystal-like and Modular Structures

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

4 min read

Sep 26 '24

Unlocking the Secrets of Digital Decisions: A Beginner’s Guide to Logic Gates

#beginners #programming #logicgates

4 min read

Oct 31 '24

Scheduling Languages: Evolution, Present State, and Future Directions

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

4 min read

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.