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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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Mohammed Ali Chherawalla

Mar 10

How to Know If Your Startup Needs Better Code or Better Strategy

#startup #programming #beginners #productivity

10 min read

Mohammed Ali Chherawalla

Mar 10

How to Go from Launched Product to Paying Users Who Stay

#startup #productivity #beginners #webdev

10 min read

Mar 10

Shell Scripting for Beginners: From Zero to Automating Your First Tasks (Part 1)

#beginners #linux #devops #bash

9 min read

Matt Frank

Feb 4

What is System Design? A Complete Beginner's Guide

#systemdesign #beginners #fundamentals

3 min read

Gathuru_M

Feb 9

Turning Messy Data into Business Action

#analytics #beginners #ai #dataengineering

3 min read

Ushakov Michael for Wissance

Mar 10

Beyond fmt: Building a Flexible Text Builder in Go with Wissance/stringFormatter

#showdev #go #beginners #tooling

3 min read

Mar 10

JavaScript String Methods Explained with Examples

#beginners #javascript #tutorial #webdev

2 min read

Feb 3

LSP: IDE-Level Code Intelligence for Claude

#tutorial #claudecode #productivity #beginners

4 min read

seah-js

Feb 4

ReAct Pattern

#ai #agents #machinelearning #beginners

6 min read

Mar 10

I Replaced My Entire Note-Taking System With 30 Lines of Python - Here's What Happened

#python #productivity #ai #beginners

2 min read

Mohammed Ali Chherawalla

Mar 10

How to Get Your First 1,000 Users to Actually Come Back

#startup #productivity #beginners #webdev

11 min read

DHANRAJ S

Feb 27

Understanding JavaScript Callbacks: The "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" Concept

#javascript #beginners #tutorial #development

2 min read

Aura Technologies

Feb 3

Building AI-Powered Applications: Lessons from the Trenches

#ai #programming #webdev #beginners

4 min read

Jeffrey Njoroge

Feb 8

How Analysts Translate Messy Data, DAX, and Dashboards into Action Using Power BI 📊➡️🚀

#analytics #beginners #microsoft #tutorial

3 min read

Muhammad Ikramullah Khan

Feb 3

I Spent a Year Building a Complete Scrapy Handbook. Here's Why.

#webdev #programming #books #beginners

5 min read

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