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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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Ahad Nawaz

May 28

Building a Cloud ERP from Zero: What I Learned Shipping to 15 Companies

#node #angular #architecture #beginners

5 min read

May 24

JavaScript Minification Explained: How Terser Shrinks Your Code (and Why It Matters)

#javascript #webdev #performance #beginners

3 min read

Mohamed Elmorsy

May 24

What is Go? — The Language Google Built to Fix Everything

#go #beginners #backend #webdev

3 min read

Beey

May 24

WhirlwindCSS: Nextgen

#whirlwindcssnextgen #opensource #webdev #beginners

1 min read

Freddy Carrillo

May 28

Centralized vs. Decentralized: Why Modern Collaborative Tools choose CRDTs

#programming #architecture #webdev #beginners

2 min read

Mohanragul

May 24

I Paused My AI Course Mid-Chapter and Built a Production RAG System in One Day

#ai #machinelearning #webdev #beginners

3 min read

May 24

🐍 Flask Python Structured Logging — What Most Miss in Production

#python #tutorial #beginners

7 min read

Altaaf8901

May 24

Building a Mini Battleship Game in Python

#python #beginners #codenewbie

2 min read

Storm

May 24

Built a competitive Fortnite tracking platform called Fortlytics.gg

#showdev #webdev #beginners #javascript

1 min read

Sandaruwan Shanaka

May 28

The Great Shift: What AI-Native Development Actually Means for Us as Student Developers

#ai #beginners #productivity #programming

5 min read

yoan ante

May 28

The bug I kept seeing in math practice: right answers that were too slow

#showdev #webdev #beginners #math

3 min read

Gidado Mukhtar Balangoggo

May 24

Why Every Student Developer Should Know About Microsoft Imagine Cup 🚀

#ai #programming #beginners #microsoft

2 min read

May 28

31 free developer tools — no signup, nothing stored

#webdev #opensource #devtools #beginners

1 min read

May 28

I built a modular Task Manager in Vanilla JS (Looking for contributors!)

#javascript #opensource #webdev #beginners

1 min read

Chatveek

May 24

Built Transformly — A Free Modern Toolkit for Developers

#showdev #programming #webdev #beginners

1 min read

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