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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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Beginner’s Guide to AES Encryption and Decryption in JavaScript using CryptoJS

#javascript #webdev #beginners #security

4 min read

Jae Jeong

Sep 12 '24

Intro to Regular Expressions

#regex #beginners

2 min read

Oct 15 '24

Just do it. Now!

#webdev #career #productivity #beginners

1 min read

Jae Jeong

Sep 12 '24

Intro to Regular Expressions

#regex #beginners

2 min read

Paradith

Oct 16 '24

Get Curious not furious

#beginners #interview #testing #codequality

2 min read

InterSystems Developer for InterSystems

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Functional indices for lightning-fast queries on many-to-many relationship tables

#indexing #sql #beginners #programming

15 min read

Michael J Stewart

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Seeking Expert Feedback: Kajabi, Stripe, and PayPal API Integration Code - Help Me Validate It!

#webdev #beginners #learning

3 min read

BHARATH M

Oct 16 '24

Setting Up Your React Native Development Environment

#reactnative #javascript #react #beginners

4 min read

Alex Patterson for CodingCatDev

Oct 16 '24

How to add Sentry to Next.js the right way!

#webdev #javascript #beginners #podcast

6 min read

JoeStrout

Oct 16 '24

Daily MiniScript mini-challenges

#programming #miniscript #minimicro #beginners

1 min read

Oct 16 '24

Mastering THIS Keyword in Java: A Key to Clean and Effective Code

#java #beginners #interview #programming

4 min read

shanyue

Oct 16 '24

Some Developer Tools I've Created

#webdev #javascript #beginners #programming

5 min read

Michell Stuttgart

Oct 16 '24

Using Literal Eval for String-to-Object Conversion in Python

#python #programming #beginners #tutorial

2 min read

Andrew Tamburino

Oct 16 '24

JavaScript the .then / .when method.

#javascript #beginners #programming #tutorial

3 min read

Sep 17 '24

Understand Tables: HTML in 180 Seconds - Episode 5

#html #webdev #beginners

3 min read

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