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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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L. Cordero

Feb 22

Me? A Semi-Finalist in the AWS 10,000 AIdeas Competition? Here's What I Built

#ai #beginners #aws #learning

4 min read

Feb 10

The Hidden Cost of 'Just Install This Library'

#webdev #javascript #productivity #beginners

3 min read

Jan 20

My First Mock Interview Experience: Real Questions and Interview-Ready Answers

#java #beginners #career #interview

4 min read

Rolan Lobo

Jan 18

How I Accidentally Became a Performance Guru

#webdev #beginners #performance #react

4 min read

Jan 18

Why You Freeze When Starting a New Project (And 5 Questions to Fix It)

#python #beginners #productivity #architecture

2 min read

Jack Pritom Soren

Feb 21

Payment System Design at Scale

#systemdesign #webdev #programming #beginners

4 min read

Fredrick Chukwuma

Feb 21

Creating and Connecting to an Amazon EC2 Instance

#aws #beginners #cloud #tutorial

3 min read

InterSystems Developer for InterSystems

Jan 18

Git Source Control Best Practices with IRIS in VSCode

#docker #beginners #git #vscode

16 min read

Jan 18

Environment vs. Proxy Variables in Apigee X

#api #beginners #google #tutorial

4 min read

Baransel

Feb 21

Stop Overengineering Your Side Projects

#beginners #learning #programming #productivity

4 min read

Ayush Kumar Anand

Jan 18

I Finally Understood Ford–Fulkerson by Solving Splitwise’s “Simplify Debts”

#algorithms #computerscience #beginners #programming

4 min read

PremPrema

Feb 21

🌿 React Diaries with Thaatha – Day 2: GitLab & Oru Main ID

#beginners #codenewbie #devjournal #git

1 min read

Muhammad Ikramullah Khan

Jan 18

10 Web Scraping Mistakes Beginners Make (And How to Fix Them)

#webdev #programming #beginners #python

10 min read

sopaan

Jan 23

Internship Apps

#programming #beginners #javascript #python

1 min read

Behram

Feb 21

I Built a 5-Agent AI Collaborative Operating System with OpenClaw: A Full Technical Breakdown!!!

#ai #beginners #productivity #tutorial

8 min read

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