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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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Aby Noctel

Sep 10 '25

Weekly Update #8

#beginners #gamedev #sfml #devlog

2 min read

Shahrouz Nikseresht

Oct 13 '25

🐍 Day 2: The Magic of Sets, Removing Duplicates While Preserving Order

#challenge #python #beginners #programming

2 min read

taiwo

Oct 12 '25

Build an Offline-First Web App with Service Workers

#webdev #javascript #beginners #frontend

5 min read

Mari

Oct 14 '25

10 Production Deployment Mistakes Alex Will Never Make Again (and How You Can Avoid Them)

#webdev #ai #programming #beginners

3 min read

Dinesh G

Oct 14 '25

Java Introduction

#java #javascript #beginners #programming

2 min read

Halton

Oct 14 '25

(basic) Provision VirtualBox Ubuntu VM Server on MacOS

#beginners #ubuntu #virtualmachine

2 min read

Oct 13 '25

Week 4: The Why and How of React 💡

#frontend #javascript #beginners #react

4 min read

Naveens K

Oct 3 '25

Understanding ACID Properties in SQL Transactions

#database #architecture #beginners #sql

2 min read

Oct 13 '25

Kafka Fundamentals: A quick look at the basic building blocks

#kafka #eventdriven #beginners #tutorial

2 min read

yashi srivastava

Oct 13 '25

🧭 React Navigation & Routing

#frontend #javascript #beginners #react

2 min read

Karthik Korrayi

Oct 2 '25

Terraform: Writing Your Infrastructure as Code 🚀

#terraform #beginners #cloud #learning

3 min read

leone

Oct 14 '25

Deploy a complete media center on Nanocl

#beginners #devops #tutorial #nanocl

4 min read

Sathish K

Oct 14 '25

Primitive Data Type, class and object, OOPS in Java

#beginners #java #tutorial

1 min read

MrRobot

Oct 13 '25

Black – The Uncompromising Python Code Formatter

#python #programming #cleancode #beginners

1 min read

Oct 13 '25

Kafka Essentials: Building Scalable and Reliable Event Streaming

#kafka #eventdriven #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

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