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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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The Science of Prompt Evaluation: From BLEU & ROUGE to Real Human Feedback

#ai #llm #promptengineering #beginners

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Side Copilot: My Chrome Extension Alternative to Comet Browser

#productivity #beginners #ai #extensions

2 min read

Cristian Sifuentes

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C# Operators Mental Model — From `number % 2 == 0` to LLM‑Ready Code

#csharp #dotnet #beginners #llms

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A Developer’s Guide to Surviving the AI Product Tsunami

#webdev #ai #productivity #beginners

4 min read

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How To Install & Use Homebrew on macOS

#tutorial #devops #webdev #beginners

9 min read

Erlan Akbaraliev

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DB2 Pract (Packages, subqueries)

#sql #tutorial #database #beginners

7 min read

Abbos Soatmurodov

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My First JavaScript Project: What I Learned (and What I Did Wrong)

#javascript #beginners #webdev #codereview

1 min read

Theodora Cristea

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The Developer's Safety Net - Introduction to TypeScript

#typescript #development #backend #beginners

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#programming #career #beginners #story

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#containers #kubernetes #devops #beginners

2 min read

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HTTPS in 4 lines of HCL

#javascript #web3 #beginners #devops

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Unified Create and Edit Form With NextJS

#webdev #javascript #nextjs #beginners

10 min read

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Temporal Dead Zone in JavaScript

#javascript #beginners #tutorial #node

3 min read

DenisC

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Continued Journey on Open Source Projects - Deprecate Python 3.9

#python #programming #beginners

3 min read

Aquila Jedidiah

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The Software Development Journey

#fullstack #python #beginners #database

2 min read

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