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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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Jerry Zhu for Codédex

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How to Contribute to Hacktoberfest with Codédex

#hacktoberfest #codedex #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Eric Jakobsen (he/they)

Oct 17 '22

How to keep your secrets off GitHub

#webdev #programming #beginners #github

2 min read

Oct 17 '22

Auto-instrumentation: No-code approach to instrument Python

#opentelemetry #python #instrumentation #beginners

2 min read

Oct 7 '22

Understanding Async & Await

#javascript #webdev #beginners #programming

4 min read

Ervin Szilagyi for AWS Community Builders

Oct 15 '22

Containers: Under the Hood

#containers #docker #linux #beginners

15 min read

Oct 16 '22

Javascript Array Slice Method

#webdev #javascript #typescript #beginners

3 min read

Oct 16 '22

Javascript Array Reduce Method

#javascript #webdev #typescript #beginners

4 min read

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Dynamic Dropdown Selection Options for forms using React.js

#reactnative #javascript #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Ayoub Ali

Oct 16 '22

Learn Go in Minutes

#go #programming #beginners #tutorial

13 min read

MakendranG for AWS Community Builders

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Getting Started with Amazon Elastic Container Service with Fargate

#aws #kubernetes #beginners #containers

2 min read

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[InterSystems IRIS for the First Time] Let’s use Interoperability

#beginners #programming #tutorial #interoperability

3 min read

Sadee

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How to Make Halloween Landing page Using HTML CSS JS | For Beginners

#css #javascript #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

BigSpaces

Oct 16 '22

A Job in Elixir #002

#beginners #life #programming #career

2 min read

Oct 15 '22

How to get the last element of an Array in Javascript

#javascript #webdev #beginners #typescript

1 min read

Oct 16 '22

How to Cloudinary in React JS.

#javascript #programming #react #beginners

3 min read

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