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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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Liora

Mar 19

Your Retry Logic Works. Your Timeout Doesn't.

#webdev #programming #tutorial #beginners

2 min read

Focusing on stability over feature creep

Sidharth Sangelia

Apr 19

I'm Rebuilding My Old Invoice App and This Time I Actually Know What I'm Doing

#nextjs #webdev #typescript #beginners

4 min read

Apr 22

If You Were a Server: How to Detect Issues and Keep Things Running Smoothly

#webdev #devops #beginners #sre

10 min read

Narayana

Mar 20

Meal Prep for Devs: My 4-Hour Sunday Solution to Never Ordering DoorDash Again

#productivity #technology #tutorial #beginners

4 min read

Eastkap

Mar 20

The Spreadsheet Killer That Isn't: Building a Budget App for Excel Power Users

#productivity #javascript #webdev #beginners

3 min read

kido

Apr 23

The power of username.github.io repo on github

#webdev #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

Adools

Mar 20

Building a SaaS at 16 'BookChap'

#beginners #buildinpublic #programming #saas

2 min read

Apr 22

Make It Easy to Work Hard

#productivity #career #beginners #softwareengineering

3 min read

Mar 20

Debugging Renders, Callbacks Everywhere, and JavaScript's Global Scope

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

3 min read

Mar 19

AI Can Build Your App in 5 Minutes. Why Does Deploying It Still Take 2 Hours?

#webdev #ai #devops #beginners

4 min read

Shahrouz Nikseresht

Mar 19

Basic Error Handling in Python: try and except Explained Simply

#python #beginners #tutorial #programming

2 min read

Jun Bae

Apr 22

Coroutine series 1) What are Coroutine, Asyncio, I/O bound?

#beginners #programming #python #tutorial

8 min read

Apr 22

DORA Metrics: How to Actually Measure DevOps Performance

#devops #software #performance #beginners

5 min read

ze he

Mar 19

URL Encoding Explained: encodeURIComponent vs encodeURI (and When to Use Each)

#javascript #webdev #beginners #tutorial

3 min read

Anupam Das

Mar 20

Built an AI Coding Mentor That Never Forgets Your Mistakes

#hackathon #ai #webdev #beginners

3 min read

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