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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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2 min read

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Event Sourcing in Rails: Rebuilding Reality From a Stream of Truth

#webdev #programming #beginners #rails

3 min read

Jun 12 '25

Code Smell 303 - Breaking Changes

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

12 min read

Manthan Ankolekar

May 30 '25

Peeking Under the Hood: How to List Your npm Packages

#webdev #beginners #npm #node

3 min read

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De testeur QA à développeur : quand changer de rôle devient un atout

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

7 min read

araf

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Microservices: Mastering the Circuit Breaker Pattern with Real Examples

#programming #beginners #productivity #java

2 min read

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Day 19/200 (Full stack)

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

3 min read

Alex Aslam

Jun 16 '25

From Events to APIs: Building a REST Layer on Event Sourcing

#webdev #programming #rails #beginners

2 min read

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How I Use AI Tools Like ChatGPT and Canva

#beginners #ai #agriculture #chatgpt

2 min read

Yukti Sahu

Jun 13 '25

👋 Hello Dev Community! I'm Yukti 🙌

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

1 min read

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“I built and sold my first developer portfolio template with Tailwind — here’s what I learned”

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Karan Prajapati

May 28 '25

"5 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Learning C++"

#beginners #learning #cpp #programming

6 min read

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How to Build a Simple Chatbot with Python

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

13 min read

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Learning Perl - Overloading Operators

#perl #beginners #programming #tutorial

8 min read

May 29 '25

10 Genius Python Tricks Every Beginner Should Be Using

#python #beginners #programming #coding

2 min read

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