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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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Sep 25 '18

Tips for Your First Tech Talk

#speaking #advice #conferences #beginners

5 min read

John Bull

Sep 24 '18

A key dependency I was using was deprecated, what did I learn?

#beginners #webdev #node

3 min read

Drew Bragg

Sep 20 '18

Lessons I learned from training with special forces that I use in software development

#beginners #career #motivation #dieliving

3 min read

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Sep 21 '18

What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do

#softwaredevelopment #beginners #productivity

3 min read

Sep 5 '18

My Blog Post Workflow: from Topic to Publication

#blogging #beginners #leadership

7 min read

Swapnil Agarwal

Sep 26 '18

geeksay - Translate layman text 👶 to its geeky version 🤓!

#javascript #webdev #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Sep 19 '18

Building My First Sinatra-based Ruby App: Thoughts and Wrap-up

#sinatra #ruby #beginners

8 min read

Sep 19 '18

How to build an Geolocation Weather Forecast app in React Native in 30 minutes

#reactnative #mobileapp #react #beginners

1 min read

Sep 22 '18

Name a more iconic duo...I'll wait.

#beginners #android #icons

2 min read

Sep 23 '18

How to add "Preview Mode" style functionality to a Rails application

#rails #beginners

4 min read

Sean

Sep 25 '18

Is an opinionated framework good for newbies?

#discuss #rails #beginners #learning

3 min read

Sep 22 '18

Solving Japanese learning problems with code

#japanese #beginners #node #script

5 min read

Sep 19 '18

Setting up Windows Subsytem for Linux

#beginners

8 min read

Sep 19 '18

Pieces of an App: The Files You Need to Start a Rails App

#ruby #beginners #webdev

3 min read

Alexandru Bucur

Sep 22 '18

ps aux output in cronjobs

#bash #beginners #linux #devops

1 min read

sandris-

Sep 21 '18

So you want to become a developer? Part I

#help #beginners #career

2 min read

Jeff Kreeftmeijer for AppSignal

Sep 18 '18

How OTP Applications are structured

#elixir #beginners #programming #erlang

4 min read

Sep 24 '18

When nil Isn't Equal to nil

#go #beginners #nil

9 min read

Sep 25 '18

Developing Style: Sinatra Security, Decorator Design Pattern

#beginners #webdev #ruby #security

14 min read

Heiker

Sep 18 '18

Setting up tape testing framework for basic frontend development

#javascript #testing #beginners

6 min read

Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦

Sep 17 '18

How I broke Dev.to on my First PR

#discuss #beginners #devops

1 min read

Tim Smith

Sep 11 '18

Let's build a search bar in React!

#react #beginners #javascript

13 min read

Sep 17 '18

Using Print Statements Are A Handy Way to Debug and Explore Code

#beginners #learning #productivity #webdev

6 min read

Milecia

Sep 18 '18

How To Put Arrows at the Bottom of a Div

#webdev #beginners #html #css

3 min read

Sep 19 '18

Demystifying Array.reduce(): How to understand it and when to use it in your code

#javascript #node #react #beginners

3 min read

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