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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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Tim Lorent

Mar 16

The toxic workplace nearly made me quit development

#webdev #beginners #career #productivity

4 min read

Chris

Feb 13

Flowers for my bebe

#showdev #beginners #frontend #sideprojects

1 min read

Feb 13

Hello World — Independent Security Researcher Joining DEV

#security #introduction #cybersecurity #beginners

1 min read

Ben Link

Mar 19

The Adventures of Blink S5e3: A Menu in Pygame

#python #beginners #buildinpublic #programming

1 min read

itsmegsg

Mar 19

Web Pentesting Beginner Roadmap (2026): From Recon to Server-Side Attacks

#websecurity #bugbounty #cybersecurity #beginners

2 min read

Xin Xu

Feb 13

Why 80% of Data Engineering is Cleaning (and How to Do It Right)

#ai #opensource #learning #beginners

3 min read

Abirami Prabhakar

Mar 19

Next Permutation

#dsa #beginners #python

2 min read

Mar 19

Understanding How AI Agents Work

#ai #beginners #agents #webdev

4 min read

Abirami Prabhakar

Mar 19

Kadanes-algorithm

#beginners #dsa #python

1 min read

Madhur Samvatsar

Mar 7

Building an AI-Powered Cybersecurity Project as a Computer Science Student

#ai #cybersecurity #beginners

2 min read

Abirami Prabhakar

Mar 19

Move all negative elements to end

#python #dsa #beginners

1 min read

Xin Xu

Feb 13

Project: Building "Mini-C4" — A Production-Grade LLM Pre-training Pipeline 🏗️

#ai #opensource #learning #beginners

3 min read

uni928

Feb 13

Practical baseline safeguards for ChatGPT-powered services

#webdev #ai #programming #beginners

3 min read

Feb 13

🔄 Loops in Python: Why My Brain Kept Going in Circles

#python #beginners #programming #logic

2 min read

Feb 17

Hoisting in let and const : Understanding the Temporal Dead Zone

#javascript #webdev #beginners #learning

4 min read

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