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"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.

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Narayana

Mar 25

Side Hustles That Don't Need 10K Followers to Make Money

#productivity #technology #tutorial #beginners

5 min read

Santhoshi Mary A

Mar 25

Consistency

#beginners #database #postgres #sql

3 min read

Apr 26

I Tried Building a Money Earning App — Here’s What Actually Happened (No BS)

#webdev #programming #startup #beginners

3 min read

Eric Park

Mar 26

Step 2: Controlling the Speed of a Stepper Motor

#beginners #c #iot #tutorial

4 min read

Eric Park

Mar 26

Step 4: Controlling Direction — and Starting to Track Position

#beginners #iot #programming #tutorial

4 min read

Mar 25

I Built a JSON Formatter Because Every Existing One Has Ads

#webdev #javascript #tools #beginners

2 min read

Mar 25

I Learned Swift to Build 3 Mac Apps — Here's What No Tutorial Taught Me

#swift #programming #productivity #beginners

3 min read

Shivangini Gupta

Mar 25

My Open Source Journey: From 20k Lines of Mess to a Merged PR

#beginners #devjournal #git #opensource

2 min read

Mar 25

Stop Copying Privacy Policies from Other Websites

#webdev #startup #beginners #productivity

2 min read

Mar 25

Google Lighthouse for Beginners: A Real Portfolio Optimization Case Study

#performance #lighthouse #web #beginners

10 min read

Muhammad Ikramullah Khan

Mar 25

Scrapy + Lightpanda: Cut Your Server Load by 70% and Scrape 10x Faster

#webdev #programming #automation #beginners

10 min read

How AI reframes the value of broad knowledge

Nikola Brežnjak

Apr 23

FOMO as a Developer: You're Not Behind, You're Just Human

#fomo #productivity #beginners

3 min read

Aritpal15

Apr 28

MY First Step into AWS: Launching an EC2 Instance

#aws #beginners #devops #cloud

1 min read

Apr 28

How I Became a Developer and Why? — My 9-Year Journey

#career #webdev #wordpress #beginners

6 min read

The intuitive JS-friendly mental model

Apr 24

MongoDB is Great. Mongoose Makes it Better.

#webdev #beginners #mongodb #database

16 min read

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