Skip to content

DEV Community

Beginners

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Chinese Proverb

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.

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.

Dec 19 '18

I18n for Rails: Set-up for Using Locales from URL Params and Basic I18n Usage

#rails #beginners #ruby

6 min read

Dec 5 '18

Optimize Your Programming Decisions for the 95%, Not the 5%

#beginners #devops #productivity #webdev

6 min read

Fred Heath

Dec 17 '18

Truth tables as Ruby Hashes

#ruby #truthtable #beginners #programming

3 min read

Dec 20 '18

Resource Summary for Simple Rails Features

#showdev #beginners #rails #ruby

10 min read

Dec 15 '18

Why should I care about HTTP?

#beginners #http

7 min read

Kelvin Wangonya

Dec 21 '18

Python's 'heapq' module

#python #beginners #devtips #learning

2 min read

Younes

Dec 18 '18

What resources to learn Ruby On Rails?

#discuss #beginners #learning #ruby

1 min read

Dec 21 '18

CSS grid intro for WPF/XAML developers

#css #xaml #wpf #beginners

4 min read

Fred Heath

Dec 21 '18

The Three Ghosts of FizzBuzz: A Christmas Story

#ruby #fizzbuzz #interview #beginners

3 min read

Jedidiah Weller 👑 for OpenForge

Dec 19 '18

What to Do After the Coding Academy

#help #beginners #career #discuss

6 min read

Ihtisham Zahoor

Dec 20 '18

WP Custom REST API Generator Open-Source Contribution for WordPress Plugin Directory

#discuss #wordpress #webdev #beginners

1 min read

Dec 20 '18

Intro to Asynchronous Patterns in JavaScript

#javascript #beginners

6 min read

kaelscion

Dec 19 '18

Testing Different Fibonacci Generator Techniques in Python

#python #programming #algorithms #beginners

4 min read

Dec 19 '18

Episode 2 - JSON API using ASP.NET Core, Docker & MongoDB: Project Structure

#blog #howto #dotnetcore #beginners

2 min read

Julia Torrejón

Dec 10 '18

What is the importance of understanding libraries and frameworks?

#discuss #beginners #learning

1 min read

Jermaine

Dec 17 '18

Write your first Web Scraper with Dart

#showdev #dart #beginners #webdev

7 min read

Palash Bauri 👻

Dec 17 '18

Explain Awk and Its Uses Like I'm Five

#explainlikeimfive #awk #linux #beginners

1 min read

Jayant Raj Singh

Dec 19 '18

I am not able to understand 'factory'

#beginners #javascript #howto

1 min read

Drew Bragg

Dec 11 '18

Dear future programmer

#beginners #motivation #learning #career

2 min read

Dec 19 '18

Ruby: Plus-Equals (+=) vs. Shovel (<<)

#beginners #ruby #learning

3 min read

Milecia

Dec 13 '18

What Does It Mean To Inject Code?

#webdev #csharp #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Dec 17 '18

Stop Learning Frameworks

#discuss #career #beginners

1 min read

Dec 15 '18

Reference Guide: Committing Changes with Branches

#codenewbie #beginners #webdev #productivity

2 min read

Younes

Dec 17 '18

Is having a degree in IT still relevant in 2019?

#discuss #beginners #skills #career

4 min read

Kristian Freeman for Bytesized Code

Dec 15 '18

My dev conference project Byteconf is giving away over $2000 in web dev subscriptions, courses and more

#javascript #webdev #react #beginners

2 min read

loading...