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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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Devanshu Biswas

Jun 20

Temperature and Sampling: the LLM Creativity Dial

#ai #llm #beginners #machinelearning

1 min read

Devanshu Biswas

Jun 20

I Built a Live Markdown Editor With No Library (~40 Lines)

#javascript #webdev #beginners #html

1 min read

Devanshu Biswas

Jun 20

CNNs From Scratch: the Convolution That Sees Images

#machinelearning #deeplearning #ai #beginners

1 min read

Devanshu Biswas

Jun 20

Random Forest From Scratch: Many Weak Trees Beat One Strong Tree

#machinelearning #ai #javascript #beginners

1 min read

Devanshu Biswas

Jun 20

Feature Scaling: Why One Big Number Drowns Your Model

#machinelearning #ai #beginners #datascience

1 min read

Devanshu Biswas

Jun 20

Self-RAG: Let the Model Decide When to Retrieve, Then Grade Itself

#ai #rag #llm #beginners

1 min read

Devanshu Biswas

Jun 20

I Built a QR Code Generator That Runs 100% in the Browser

#javascript #webdev #beginners #html

1 min read

Devanshu Biswas

Jun 20

Gradient Descent From Scratch: the Engine Under All of ML

#machinelearning #ai #javascript #beginners

1 min read

Devanshu Biswas

Jun 20

I Built Pac-Man in ~150 Lines of Vanilla JavaScript

#javascript #gamedev #beginners #webdev

1 min read

Jun 20

How to Sync a Forked Git Repository (Without Losing Local Changes)

#beginners #git #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

PRAKASH GANGURDE

Jun 20

20 Linux Commands Every CS Student Should Know

#linux #computerscience #coding #beginners

9 min read

Jun 20

URL Encoding vs Percent Encoding — Are They the Same Thing?

#webdev #javascript #tutorial #beginners

4 min read

Jun 20

Why I Tell Clients NOT to Automate Everything — The Over-Automation Trap

#automation #python #productivity #beginners

3 min read

Vijaya Laxmi Kadham

Jun 20

AWS S3 Hands-On Project | Buckets, Versioning, Permissions and Static Website Hosting

#aws #beginners #s3

5 min read

Jun 20

The Hidden Trap in Backend Tutorials: Why Your Webhooks Are Creating Duplicate Data (And How to Fix It)

#webdev #backend #node #beginners

3 min read

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