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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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Harish Kotra (he/him)

Mar 10

Building Screenshot Sage: A Local AI That Can Understand Your Screenshots

#ai #python #beginners #dailybuild2026

4 min read

Apr 13

# Understanding wallet sync: why your deploy fails before it starts

#beginners #tutorial #midnightfordevs #midnightntwrk

8 min read

Andrew Chadwick

Mar 23

The Self-Taught Engineer vs. The CS Graduate: Why Teams Need Both

#discuss #career #management #beginners

3 min read

Danilo Eduardo Lopez Corozo

Mar 14

My first open source code

#showdev #beginners #opensource #webscraping

2 min read

Midas126

Mar 10

Beyond Any and Unknown: Mastering TypeScript's Advanced Type Safety

#typescript #webdev #programming #beginners

5 min read

Max

Mar 14

I know the answer and I'm not telling you

#ai #programming #beginners #productivity

4 min read

Apr 13

Building a Linux Server From Scratch

#beginners #devops #linux #tutorial

2 min read

Apr 13

How I Learned SQL by Creating a Simple School Database

#beginners #database #sql #tutorial

5 min read

Mar 10

Getting Started with SQL subqueries. A complete beginner guide with examples.

#sql #beginners #database

9 min read

Talha T

Mar 10

How I Built My First ML Engineering Project And Got Noticed

#beginners #cicd #machinelearning #tutorial

4 min read

EventDock

Mar 23

I Vibe-Coded a SaaS and My Webhooks Were Silently Failing — Here's What I Missed

#webdev #ai #beginners #javascript

5 min read

Mar 24

C++ Object Creation & Memory

#beginners #computerscience #cpp #java

2 min read

Apex Stack

Mar 10

My Site Has 287,000 Pages and Zero Backlinks. Here's My Plan to Fix That.

#seo #webdev #programming #beginners

5 min read

dev koan

Apr 13

Stop Asking "Is This the Right Way?" — Here's What to Ask Instead

#career #beginners #programming #productivity

3 min read

Yaniv

Apr 13

CSV vs JSON for Test Data: What I Learned Using Both in the Same Framework

#testing #python #automation #beginners

4 min read

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