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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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Gayatri Sonawane

Jan 9

Getting Started with Amazon CloudWatch for Beginners

#aws #beginners #devops #monitoring

1 min read

Jan 9

The Real ROI of TypeScript: Beyond Catching Typos

#discuss #programming #typescript #beginners

10 min read

Jan 9

Building Your First Game on Midnight: A Complete Developer Tutorial

#beginners #gamedev #tutorial #web3

13 min read

Dennis Traub for AWS

Feb 13

Why Your Chatbot is the BlackBerry of the 2020s

#ai #architecture #beginners #productivity

1 min read

Joseph G Mwango

Jan 30

Building in Silence: 8+ Unpublished HTML5 Web Apps Ready to Collaborate. Hit me up we partner!

#webdev #programming #beginners

1 min read

Feb 12

為什麼你的 AI 不記得你？——以及這件事為什麼重要 | Why Your AI Doesn't Remember You

#ai #machinelearning #productivity #beginners

1 min read

mikaru256

Jan 10

Authentication flows are hard to explain — so I tried visualizing them instead

#webdev #react #webapp #beginners

2 min read

Jan 8

New Python Courseware for Early-Career CS Students

#python #ai #career #beginners

3 min read

Feb 12

"I'm a Garlic Farmer. I Build Software on My Phone. I Can't Code."

#ai #beginners #security #python

12 min read

Jan 13

When to use Cloudflare Workers for Edge Processing

#webdev #programming #beginners

4 min read

Jayaprasanna Roddam

Jan 9

In-place Modification

#programming #beginners #tutorial #datastructures

2 min read

Feb 12

How Enterprise Applications Use UI Frameworks and Rapid Application Development Tools to Build Modern Web Apps

#webdev #ai #programming #beginners

3 min read

Jayaprasanna Roddam

Jan 9

Two Pointers (Opposite Ends)

#programming #beginners #tutorial #career

2 min read

Feb 12

Building a Formula-as-a-Service API: My Journey from Student to Published Researcher

#programming #api #beginners #productivity

2 min read

Harsh

Feb 12

So You Want to Build for the Web? Here's Your 2026 Game Plan

#discuss #webdev #beginners #codenewbie

4 min read

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