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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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Jaideep Parashar

Dec 20 '25

Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Context Engineering Is the Future

#webdev #ai #promptengineering #beginners

3 min read

Jeya Shri

Dec 19 '25

Choosing the Right EC2 Instance: Types, Pricing Models, and Workload Fit

#beginners #aws #cloud #learning

3 min read

Dec 19 '25

Stop Writing Comments: Why Senior Devs Hate "Stale Lies"

#beginners #cleancode #javascript #career

3 min read

Aman Hussain Shaikh

Nov 14 '25

🚀 Deploy Your First CI/CD Website in 10 Minutes Using GitHub Actions + Netlify (Complete Beginner's Guide)

#cicd #beginners #github #tutorial

7 min read

Manish Kumar Sahu

Nov 14 '25

Things I Wish I Knew as a Fresher Developer on My First Project

#webdev #career #beginners #developers

2 min read

Olivia

Nov 14 '25

🕰️ Async Basics in Rustlang

#rust #beginners #tutorial

10 min read

Shloka

Dec 18 '25

What the heck Is a Single-Page Application Anyway?

#beginners #javascript #architecture #webdev

4 min read

Dinesh G

Nov 15 '25

Methods in Java

#programming #beginners #java #javascript

1 min read

Nov 19 '25

On Learning Web Development When Web Development is Still Learning Web Development

#beginners #career #webdev #learning

9 min read

Malek

Dec 18 '25

Rust Chronicles #3 - immutability, valuing safety over convenience

#rust #beginners #programming #software

6 min read

n3on

Nov 20 '25

🚀 The Unexpected Lesson That Finally Made Me a Better Developer

#productivity #career #programming #beginners

2 min read

Dec 19 '25

Systemd Explained: Units, Targets, and Why systemctl Is More Than Start and Stop

#linux #systemd #programming #beginners

3 min read

JongHwa

Dec 18 '25

My Service is Slow! Where Do I Start? (Performance Tuning Basics)

#beginners #performance #backend #architecture

3 min read

Aswin

Nov 18 '25

Introducing Dolphin - new way to make Android Apps using React.

#android #javascript #react #beginners

2 min read

Nov 29 '25

🛍 Liquid — The Templating Language Powering Shopify Themes and Static Content

#frontend #webdev #programming #beginners

2 min read

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