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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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Ali Hamza

May 20

#Input #form #button #img

#beginners #devjournal #html #webdev

1 min read

Leo

May 20

My CLI was slow — then I stopped awaiting everything

#node #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Niveditha Sathish Nair

May 20

I got my first PR merged in GSSoC 2026 and here's exactly what happened

#beginners #codenewbie #opensource #python

2 min read

pjdev2d

May 20

R Learning

#beginners #javascript #react #webdev

2 min read

Tapas Pal

May 20

Difference Between StackOverflowError and OutOfMemoryError in Java

#beginners #computerscience #java #tutorial

2 min read

Lingdas1

May 24

I Broke My AI Assistant 7 Times. Here's What I Learned.

#ai #beginners #productivity #story

6 min read

May 19

Why a multi-agent protocol that only enables note-passing leaves most of the value on the table.

#ai #claude #opensource #beginners

5 min read

May 21

Building a Nutrition Calculator in JavaScript: filter, map, and reduce on Objects

#javascript #beginners #web

5 min read

May 19

We Switched From SQL to Python - Here's How Week 1 Went

#python #beginners #development #programming

6 min read

Akhilesh

May 20

90. Phase 8 Capstone: Build a Full AI Application

#ai #productivity #beginners #aiapp

10 min read

ziv cohen

May 19

TTY & PTY Explained 🖨️🐧

#learning #beginners #linux #tty

4 min read

ObservabilityGuy

May 20

Human-Robot Half Marathon: The Large-Scale O&M Challenge for Embodied Intelligence Beyond the Racecourse

#intelligence #beginners #cloudnative

10 min read

daxxx

May 19

Day 1: I Finally Understood What Expo Actually Is (And Why It Exists)

#reactnative #expogo #mobile #beginners

2 min read

ObservabilityGuy

May 20

Put a Microscope on Hermes: Full Visibility into Agent Execution

#hermes #agents #beginners

9 min read

Vinayagam

May 24

A Study on Conditional Statements and Control Flow in Python

#python #beginners #ai #webdev

2 min read

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