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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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May 12

Learning TypeScript As If You Built It Yourself

#typescript #learning #beginners

14 min read

Athithya Sivasankarar

May 22

useEffect Hook in React

#beginners #javascript #react #webdev

1 min read

May 8

Storing Uploaded Files and Serving Them in Express

#ai #webdev #javascript #beginners

6 min read

Maria Artamonova for Red5

May 8

What Is RTSP Streaming and Why It Is Still Relevant in 2026

#livestreaming #software #learning #beginners

15 min read

zirohiro

May 8

Developing a beginner-friendly wallet threat detector (dust attacks, fake tokens, approvals…)

#ai #web3 #webdev #beginners

1 min read

丁久

May 8

"REST API Best Practices: The Complete Guide for 2026"

#api #webdev #programming #beginners

2 min read

DIVYANSHU MISHRA

May 8

7 Mistakes Beginner Developers Make (And How to Avoid Them)

#beginners #codenewbie #learning #programming

2 min read

Jayanth

May 8

I Gave Mistral Remote Agents a Real Coding Task, Closed My Laptop, and Came Back to a Finished App

#ai #tutorial #beginners #agents

4 min read

DIVYANSHU MISHRA

May 8

10 Git Commands Every Developer Should Know

#beginners #git #github #tutorial

2 min read

Yechiel Kalmenson

May 26

Shipping Your Machine: Building a Container in 50 Lines of Code (Part 2)

#go #containers #beginners #docker

6 min read

May 8

Hashing vs Encryption vs Encoding: What Every Developer Should Know

#webdev #javascript #beginners #tools

4 min read

May 8

7 Things Most Developers Don't Know About JSON.parse() and JSON.stringify()

#javascript #webdev #beginners #productivity

4 min read

Akhilesh

May 8

Building a RAG pipeline without OpenAI

#mlproject #ai #beginners #python

2 min read

Devanshu Biswas

May 21

I Built a 3-Agent AI Research Crew in 250 Lines of Python (LangGraph + Free Gemini)

#ai #python #langgraph #beginners

6 min read

임세환

May 12

Building an Offline-First Exchange Calculator with Vanilla JavaScript

#javascript #webdev #pwa #beginners

4 min read

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