Skip to content

DEV Community

Beginners

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Chinese Proverb

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.

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.

Shivangini Gupta

Mar 25

My Open Source Journey: From 20k Lines of Mess to a Merged PR

#beginners #devjournal #git #opensource

2 min read

Mar 25

Google Lighthouse for Beginners: A Real Portfolio Optimization Case Study

#performance #lighthouse #web #beginners

10 min read

Muhammad Ikramullah Khan

Mar 25

Scrapy + Lightpanda: Cut Your Server Load by 70% and Scrape 10x Faster

#webdev #programming #automation #beginners

10 min read

Apr 17

Decoded update — here’s what’s new

#webdev #dsa #programming #beginners

2 min read

Narayana

Mar 26

I Killed 3 Business Ideas in 48 Hours (Here's My Framework)

#productivity #technology #tutorial #beginners

4 min read

Kacper Włodarczyk

Mar 25

Full RAG Pipeline: 4 Vector Stores, Hybrid Search, and Reranking in One Template

#webdev #ai #programming #beginners

5 min read

Context First AI

Mar 25

You're Not Reading Words, You're Reading Chunks: Tokens and Context Windows Explained.

#ai #beginners #llm #nlp

6 min read

楊東霖

Mar 25

Base64 Encoding Explained: When and Why to Use It

#webdev #javascript #tutorial #beginners

14 min read

Christina Sharon S

Mar 29

Creating Tables using constraints

#beginners #database #postgres #sql

2 min read

Mar 26

Git Isn't Magic-Here's What's Actually Happening Under the Hood

#beginners #git #learning #tooling

2 min read

楊東霖

Mar 25

Best Python Developer Tools in 2026: IDEs, Linters, Testing, and More

#python #programming #tutorial #beginners

9 min read

Mar 25

Setup a DNS hosted zone in Route53 in AWS.

#aws #beginners #networking #tutorial

1 min read

Mar 25

I Quit MyFitnessPal After 6 Months — Here's What I Use Instead

#productivity #ai #beginners

2 min read

Mar 26

Spread vs Rest Operator In JavaScript

#webdev #programming #beginners #frontend

2 min read

Nkechi Anna Ahanonye

Mar 26

Free Agentic AI for Developers Who Can't Afford the Premium Tools

#agents #ai #beginners #tutorial

2 min read

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.