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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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Aryan Choudhary

Jan 9

The First Week at a Startup Taught Me More Than I Expected

#startup #beginners #career #learning

2 min read

Dec 26 '25

Building a Heartbeat-style Gossip Node Network: Failure Detection in Distributed Systems

#distributedsystems #programming #beginners #tutorial

7 min read

Dec 26 '25

From Manual Setup to One-Command Deployment: My Journey Dockerizing WordPress

#webdev #devops #beginners #docker

4 min read

Yakub

Dec 26 '25

My Thesis Accidentally Made Me a Data Scientist

#ai #beginners #python #datascience

2 min read

Dec 27 '25

🍽️ APIs Explained Like You're 5

#eli5 #web #backend #beginners

1 min read

maso

Jan 31

DAY3 -Monitoring & Scaling

#aws #beginners #cloud #tutorial

5 min read

Dec 26 '25

7 AI Automation Hacks That Replace Junior Developers

#webdev #programming #ai #beginners

6 min read

Micah

Jan 30

What's your experience of learning software development in the age of AI?

#beginners #codenewbie #programming #vibecoding

2 min read

Dec 26 '25

How I built a Game & Blog in 24 Hours with Zero Experience (using AI)

#showdev #beginners #webdev #ai

1 min read

Eric Rodríguez

Dec 26 '25

My First AWS Lab: Setting Up a Budget Alarm (Even though I have Credits)

#aws #beginners #tutorial #cloud

2 min read

i Ash

Dec 26 '25

Understanding LLM vs AI: What Every Engineer Needs to Know | My Site

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #llm

5 min read

Dinesh

Jan 17

Material vs Material Instance: My Beginner Realization

#gamedev #unrealengine #beginners #resources

2 min read

program52

Dec 27 '25

A coding challenge a week - can you complete all 52?

#challenge #beginners #coding #learning

2 min read

Codenhack

Dec 26 '25

Stop reading tutorials. Start hacking. (I built a free interactive platform)

#showdev #programming #webdev #beginners

2 min read

Jan 30

Test Isolation vs. Mocking Mechanics in Express

#testing #beginners #express

3 min read

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