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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.

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How ATS Resume Parsers Actually Work (A Developer's Perspective)

#career #beginners #programming

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Jan 27

Beyond the Prompt: moving from Instruction to Architecture

#programming #ai #beginners #tutorial

7 min read

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Jan 27

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#ai #beginners

1 min read

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Mar 2

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#claudecode #ai #productivity #beginners

4 min read

Mar 2

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#ia #performance #beginners #french

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Swadesh Chatterjee

Jan 27

Getting Started with cURL

#api #beginners #cli #tutorial

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Eva Clari

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The Modern Developer Stack in 2026: Tools You Actually Need

#webdev #programming #ai #beginners

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Hiral

Jan 27

Understanding Network Devices

#beginners #computerscience #networking #tutorial

2 min read

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Jan 28

How to Think About `.gitignore` for Android Studio and a Standard Practical Setup

#android #beginners #git #tooling

4 min read

Taki

Mar 2

Developer-focused prompting tricks to use Cursor

#ai #learning #promptengineering #beginners

3 min read

Sivakumar Prasanth

Feb 10

The Game Art Pipeline: A Step by Step Guide for Creating Stunning Game Assets

#beginners #design #gamedev #tutorial

3 min read

Jan 27

My first week in Ubuntu

#programming #beginners #career #ubuntu

2 min read

Mar 2

SQL Joins and Window Functions: A Developer's Guide

#webdev #sql #database #beginners

5 min read

Mar 2

I Told My AI "Never Touch Auth" — It Did Anyway. Here's How I Fixed It.

#discuss #ai #programming #beginners

4 min read

Mar 2

Stop Writing Spaghetti API Routes: A Practical Guide to Clean Express.js Architecture

#javascript #node #webdev #beginners

5 min read

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