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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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Sachin Kr. Rajput

Jan 13

Loss Functions: The Brutally Honest Friend Your Model Desperately Needs

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

9 min read

Sachin Kr. Rajput

Jan 13

Classification vs Regression: The Doctor Who Gives Answers vs The Doctor Who Gives Numbers

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

9 min read

Sachin Kr. Rajput

Jan 13

Parametric vs Non-Parametric Models: The GPS vs The Taxi Driver

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

9 min read

Rahul Raj

Dec 9 '25

Different Ways to Find Even and Odd Numbers

#beginners #java #tutorial

2 min read

Sachin Kr. Rajput

Jan 13

Overfitting & Underfitting: Why Your Model Aced the Practice Test But Failed the Real Exam

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

10 min read

Sachin Kr. Rajput

Jan 13

The Bias-Variance Tradeoff: Why Your Model is Either Too Dumb or Too Smart

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

7 min read

Sachin Kr. Rajput

Jan 13

The Three Musketeers of Machine Learning: A Journey from "What's ML?" to "I Get It!"

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #tutorial

9 min read

Blink

Dec 10 '25

Day 5: Catching Up

#ai #programming #productivity #beginners

2 min read

Jan 13

How Large Language Models (LLMs) Actually Generate Text

#ai #machinelearning #beginners #learning

2 min read

Jan 13

Networking 101 #1. Networking Introduction

#networking #devops #cloud #beginners

8 min read

Olaolu' Afolami

Dec 9 '25

🛒 Optimizing Electro E-Commerce with AWS Load Balancer Solutions

#beginners #architecture #aws #tutorial

6 min read

Ritam Saha

Jan 13

Inside Git: How It Works and the Role of the .git Folder

#git #github #beginners #programming

7 min read

Saif Ullah Usmani

Jan 13

Make one CRM and sell forever 🤑

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Jashwanth Thatipamula

Jan 13

What SmartML Benchmarks Tell You Before Hyperparameter Tuning

#ai #machinelearning #learning #beginners

2 min read

Jan 11

Headless Mode: Unleash AI in Your CI/CD Pipeline

#tutorial #claudecode #productivity #beginners

4 min read

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