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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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Fernando Flores

Jan 16

Using leaked OpenAI API keys: it seemed like a good idea… until it wasn’t

#ai #openai #beginners #learning

2 min read

Feb 17

Teaching Claude Code How You Work: CLAUDE.md in Practice

#aws #ai #productivity #beginners

12 min read

Shatakshi

Feb 18

Master Bash Scripting: A Practical Guide for Systems & Automation

#systems #cli #beginners #devops

7 min read

Harish Kotra (he/him)

Jan 15

Building a Frugal AI Researcher: Optimizing Agent Costs with Logic Gates

#programming #ai #beginners #python

3 min read

Jan 15

Rethinking Learning Dynamics in AI Models: An Early Theory from Experimentation

#webdev #programming #ai #beginners

3 min read

Jan 16

Advanced Alert Dialogs and Modals with SweetAlert2 in React

#react #programming #tutorial #beginners

7 min read

Jack Felke

Jan 16

Hello, DEV! My Journey into Coding Starts Here 🚀

#beginners #programming

1 min read

Jan 19

The Green Light Fallacy: Hardening MCP Servers Against Poisoning and Shadowing

#programming #ai #beginners #python

7 min read

0xLysandre

Feb 18

I'm not a "real" developer, I used AI to build a study scheduler. Here's how it went.

#ai #electron #beginners #productivity

7 min read

Hrishikesh Dalal

Feb 18

EP 15: Pub/Sub - Stop Chaining Your Services

#systemdesign #pubsub #beginners

4 min read

Sospeter Mong'are

Jan 15

Customer / Client(Non-Admin) Dashboard Rule of Thumb

#webdev #programming #beginners #tutorial

3 min read

chandra penugonda

Jan 20

A 90-Day Plan to Become Job-Ready in Python (2026)

#beginners #career #python #tutorial

2 min read

Shivakumar

Jan 15

SSL/TLS & Encryption: Symmetric vs Asymmetric keys, Certificate Authorities, Mutual TLS (mTLS)

#beginners #cybersecurity #networking #security

5 min read

Jan 15

Networking 101 #4. TCP vs UDP

#beginners #devops #networking #tutorial

4 min read

Shahrouz Nikseresht

Jan 15

Python Loops Explained: for vs while (Beginner Guide)

#python #beginners #tutorial #programming

2 min read

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