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"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.

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Apr 30

Build a Tip Calculator in Vanilla JavaScript: a beginner DOM project

#javascript #beginners #webdev #tutorial

4 min read

Apr 30

HTML Entities Explained: When to Encode, When to Skip, and What Goes Wrong

#webdev #html #beginners #security

4 min read

Apr 30

Lorem Ipsum Explained: Why Developers Use Fake Latin and When to Stop

#webdev #beginners #design #productivity

4 min read

L. Cordero

May 3

I always worried my READMEs disagreed with my own repos. So I built README Clew.

#claude #replit #beginners #hackathon

5 min read

Biswas Prasana Swain

Apr 30

Internet Resilience: Anycast and BGP

#networking #computerscience #learning #beginners

4 min read

mycurator

Apr 30

I built my first project while learning to code: A privacy-first Bluesky feed curator

#privacy #bluesky #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Apr 30

ERP Modernization: A Phased Migration That Actually Works

#tutorial #webdev #beginners

12 min read

May 1

AI + Space + APIs: The Future of Web Development 🌌

#ai #webdev #coding #beginners

1 min read

Shishir Bhuiyan

Apr 30

🚀 VM vs Container

#beginners #cloudcomputing #devops #docker

2 min read

Shishir Bhuiyan

Apr 30

What is Containerization and Why is it Essential?

#architecture #beginners #devops #docker

1 min read

Apr 30

RAG - Vector DB

#beginners #ai

2 min read

Apr 30

How to Calculate Business Days Between Two Dates in JavaScript

#javascript #webdev #productivity #beginners

3 min read

Stepan Kukharskiy

Apr 30

I never new that but Cursor was initially a CAD tool 🤪

#ai #webdev #programming #beginners

2 min read

Findus

Apr 29

What developers get wrong about their employment contracts (and the four clauses worth actually reading)

#career #webdev #beginners #productivity

3 min read

Jiho Lee

Apr 30

Battery Engineer by Day, App Developer by Night — Here’s Why

#ai #beginners #ios #music

2 min read

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