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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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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

Noriuki

Mar 9

5 Simple Practices That Help Me Write Cleaner Code

#beginners #codequality #programming #tutorial

3 min read

jidonglab

Mar 10

Single-Pass RAG Is Dead — Here's What Replaced It in 2026

#ai #beginners #rag #llm

5 min read

jidonglab

Mar 10

A Study Found AI Made Senior Devs 19% Slower — But They All Thought They Were Faster

#ai #programming #beginners #productivity

3 min read

The Daily Agent

Mar 9

How to Build a Custom MCP Tool in Under 10 Min

#tutorial #beginners #ai #python

3 min read

One-Up

Mar 9

J'ai construit un assistant IA personnel avec Claude Code — et je suis débutant

#claudecode #ia #beginners #french

2 min read

Mar 7

Build a RAG Pipeline in Python That Actually Works

#ai #python #tutorial #beginners

7 min read

Mar 9

JavaScript said 'I'll call you back' — and this is what it actually meant

#javascript #beginners #webdev #programming

2 min read

Mahendra Nagpure

Feb 3

Building My Developer Portfolio: A Journey from Passion to Production

#portfolio #react #nextjs #beginners

5 min read

Nithya Dharshini official

Mar 9

Battery Optimization Mode – A Custom Sliding Window Problem(Real World Example)

#programming #beginners #dsa #cpp

2 min read

Mehdi BR

Mar 9

I made my own C++ networking library at 16: here's how.

#programming #cpp #networking #beginners

2 min read

Sospeter Mong'are

Mar 9

Understanding APIs: Core Knowledge Every Developer Should Have

#programming #productivity #beginners #api

3 min read

Mar 9

ADVANCED SQL FOR DATA ANALYTICS:ADVANCED TECHNIQUES EVERY DATA ANALYST SHOULD KNOW.

#sql #learning #datascience #beginners

7 min read

Mar 9

The role of H1 to H6 tags in content hierarchy

#webdev #seo #html #beginners

2 min read

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