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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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Muhammad Ikramullah Khan

Jan 17

How Scrapy Actually Works: A Beginner's Guide

#webdev #programming #python #beginners

8 min read

Jan 16

Getting Started with Smart React Grid: Building Your First Data Grid

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

5 min read

Jan 16

Building Feature-Rich Tables with Material-Table in React

#react #webdev #tutorial #beginners

8 min read

Vibhav Chennamadhava

Jan 16

Metasploit Deep Dive: Staged vs. Stageless Payloads — A Practical Lab

#beginners #cybersecurity #security #tutorial

3 min read

Jan 16

Building High-Performance Virtualized Lists with Virtua in React

#react #programming #tutorial #beginners

5 min read

Lucy.L

Jan 16

Building a Real-Time AI Canvas: Why I Switched from SDXL to Z-Image Turbo

#webdev #ai #programming #beginners

3 min read

Jan 16

Day 1: Regression — The Art of Prediction

#machinelearning #ai #datascience #beginners

3 min read

Feb 18

One Month Into My Java Journey – Honest Course Feedback

#beginners #career #codenewbie #java

2 min read

Feb 19

Scanner Class in Java

#beginners #java #programming #tutorial

3 min read

Feb 19

Your First Interview Is Now With an AI. Here Is What It Scores You On

#ai #career #interview #beginners

3 min read

Feb 19

The Stateful Scraper: Why Mechanize is Still Relevant

#ruby #scraping #beginners #webdev

3 min read

Oladimeji Zainab

Feb 19

Create a storage account and configure high availability.

#cloud #devops #beginners #azure

5 min read

ClintWithK

Jan 16

Setting Up a Secure Connection to Git Using SSH Keys on Ubuntu (Beginner’s Guide)

#webdev #programming #ai #beginners

2 min read

PONVEL M

Feb 7

Understanding Classes in Java – A Beginner’s Guide

#beginners #java #programming #tutorial

2 min read

Feb 19

The LinkedIn Easy Apply Trap. Why 200 Applications Gets You 3 Callbacks

#career #linkedin #jobsearch #beginners

4 min read

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