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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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Jun 21

What 4 months of building taught me right before my first real launch

#beginners #startup #buildinpublic #productivity

1 min read

Devanshu Biswas

Jun 21

OrderHub Day 2: Persisting Orders with JPA + PostgreSQL (Spring Boot)

#java #spring #database #beginners

1 min read

Ingit Bhatnagar

Jun 21

De-mystifying the GenAI Stack: From LLMs to RAG (A Systems Perspective)

#ai #beginners #java #genai

5 min read

Jun 21

Kotlin

#beginners #programming #testing #tutorial

1 min read

Jun 20

while Loop, break & continue, Lists (Creation, Mutability, Methods, List Comprehension)

#beginners #programming #python #tutorial

11 min read

Jun 20

How To Manage Your Social Media As A Developer ?

#productivity #beginners #career

1 min read

Robo Thor

Jun 20

I Built a Free Multi-Language Toolkit with 59+ Web Tools (No Signup Required) published: true

#webde #productivity #tools #beginners

1 min read

aierkuite

Jun 20

How a non-coder shipped a camera + voice AI toy — the AI wrote the code, I made the calls

#showdev #ai #beginners #sideprojects

3 min read

Saba Khan

Jun 21

My first post on DEV.to

#ai #webdev #beginners

1 min read

Uya

Jun 20

Building a Password Generator CLI in Python — string, random, any, and Testing Randomness

#python #pytest #beginners #testing

11 min read

Oluwasegun Michael Adesiyan

Jun 21

Understanding Cloud Computing Concepts: A Beginner's Guide

#cloudcomputing #azure #beginners #cloudstorage

4 min read

Jun 20

Building a Memory System for My AI Code Generator

#ai #webdev #llm #beginners

2 min read

Jun 21

React JS Install Guide: Step by Step React + Vite Setup (Latest Version)

#react #vite #beginners #webdev

1 min read

Michael B

Jun 20

Chat GPT Codex Empowers My Solo Dev Journey

#ai #programming #productivity #beginners

2 min read

Devanshu Biswas

Jun 20

RNNs From Scratch: a Network With a Memory of the Past

#machinelearning #deeplearning #ai #beginners

1 min read

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