Skip to content

DEV Community

Beginners

"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.

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.

Jan 10

What Clients ACTUALLY Want From Frontend Devs (Not Clean Code)

#webdev #career #beginners #programming

9 min read

Jan 10

Inside Git: How its works and the role of the .git folder

#git #beginners #tutorial #architecture

3 min read

Thellu

Dec 7 '25

The Real Initialization Order of Java Classes (And a Subtle Pitfall)

#webdev #programming #java #beginners

3 min read

Jan 10

How a QA Tester Used AI to Build a CSS Grid Learning Tool

#ai #beginners #css #tooling

2 min read

Saif Ullah Usmani

Jan 10

Elasticsearch - How I failed when I needed fast searching

#webdev #devops #beginners #career

2 min read

Varsha Das for AWS

Dec 11 '25

🚀 How Developers Can Stop Pretending to Understand AI Buzzwords

#ai #beginners #tutorial

6 min read

Jim

Dec 7 '25

Typescript/JavaScript Book Recommendations

#typescript #javascript #beginners

1 min read

Jan 5

Building My HRT Journey Tracker Workspace: A Modular, Accessible Toolset for the Trans Community

#beginners #python #opensource #appdevelopment

2 min read

Jan 9

I Built a PostgreSQL User Analytics System — Here’s What I Learned About Real SQL

#postgres #beginners #database #sql

3 min read

Jan 10

Day 10 of 100

#programming #python #devjournal #beginners

1 min read

Will

Dec 8 '25

First Contact Diplomacy

#beginners #python #chatgpt

1 min read

Jeya Shri

Jan 10

Testing VPC connectivity - A quick hands-on

#cloud #aws #vpc #beginners

2 min read

Jan 10

HTML-101 #2. Structure of HTML

#discuss #webdev #beginners #tutorial

8 min read

Jan 5

I Built in Public for 5 Months. Nobody Watched. 22nd Dec. I Got Fired.

#beginners #programming #career #python

4 min read

Brendon O'Neill

Dec 5 '25

Your DSA Toolkit: Hashmaps, Queues & Stacks (JavaScript)

#algorithms #beginners #javascript #tutorial

11 min read

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.