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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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Mindmagic

Apr 2

The Deployment That Taught Me More Than Any Tutorial

#beginners #devjournal #learning #webdev

2 min read

Feb 27

Why We Built a Pine Script Indicator Engine (And What Traders Are Doing With It)

#webdev #trading #fintech #beginners

13 min read

Allan Kong

Feb 28

6 Mistakes I Made Building a Side Project for Over a Year

#showdev #webdev #beginners #learning

9 min read

Mar 22

I Just Published My First App on the App Store

#showdev #ios #swift #beginners

2 min read

Feb 28

How to Evolve Your Laravel App into a Top-Tier AI Agent

#ai #programming #productivity #beginners

5 min read

Mar 21

Kth Smallest Element in an Array

#python #algorithms #beginners

1 min read

Mar 30

Why You Need An Intention For Your Coding Career

#coding #beginners #career #careerdevelopment

2 min read

Ben Link

Apr 2

The Adventures of Blink S5e5: Collisions!

#programming #python #beginners #buildinpublic

1 min read

Wisdom Emmanuel

Mar 3

Building a Cost-Efficient Serverless Resume on Azure

#azure #beginners #cloud #serverless

19 min read

InterSystems Developer for InterSystems

Feb 28

Multi-Layered Security Architecture for IRIS Deployments on AWS with InterSystems IAM

#security #kubernetes #cloud #beginners

57 min read

Apr 1

"Final Year Student? Here's Exactly What You Need to Get a Dev Job in 2026"

#webdev #javascript #beginners #career

6 min read

Rajkiran

Mar 4

How ChatGPT Actually Predicts Words (Explained Simply)

#ai #beginners #chatgpt #llm

2 min read

Apr 2

Odd-Even Digit Rearrangement

#algorithms #beginners #python #tutorial

1 min read

Beey

Apr 2

How to use surge to deploy a website

#webdev #surge #beginners #tutorial

3 min read

lori shui

Feb 27

Why I built a free TV wall in the browser — and what I learned

#showdev #webdev #javascript #beginners

4 min read

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