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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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David Tio

Mar 16

Run Your First Docker Container (2026 Step-by-Step)

#docker #tutorial #linux #beginners

6 min read

Feb 10

Linux Fundamentals - Part 12: Linux Redirection, Pipes, and Command Chaining (Applied Text Processing)

#beginners #cli #linux #tutorial

2 min read

Mar 15

10 DevOps Mistakes Beginners Make (and How to Avoid Them)

#devops #beginners #basic #cloud

3 min read

Narayana

Feb 10

I A/B Tested 100 Dev Blog Titles—Here's What Actually Works

#productivity #technology #tutorial #beginners

4 min read

Feb 9

AWS CSI -Investigating Cloud Conundrums (CloudWatch - Part 1)

#aws #beginners #cloud #monitoring

7 min read

Alphonce Oyunga

Mar 16

Embrace The Struggle

#discuss #beginners #career #learning

2 min read

Mar 22

Feeling Overwhelmed by Dev Tools? Start With HTML

#html #beginners #webdev

2 min read

ValPetal Tech Labs

Feb 9

Javascript Question of the Day #14 [Talk::Overflow]

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

3 min read

Kuria

Feb 8

How Analysts Turn Messy Data, DAX, and Dashboards into Action with Power BI

#beginners #dataengineering #analytics #datascience

3 min read

Harish Kotra (he/him)

Feb 9

Runtime Hyperparameter Tuning in LangChain

#ai #programming #python #beginners

2 min read

Mark

Mar 4

Developers, Why Moving Fast Is Actually Making You a Slower Developer

#career #productivity #beginners #webdev

5 min read

Dinesh

Feb 10

I Was Texturing the Hard Way Until I Found This

#gamedev #blender #beginners #learning

2 min read

GeraldM

Mar 15

Connecting Power BI to PostgreSQL Database

#beginners #postgres #postgressql

7 min read

saksh for OWASP BLT

Mar 4

The first step in open source

#beginners #devjournal #motivation #opensource

2 min read

The Daily Agent

Mar 15

How to Add Tools to a PydanticAI Agent in 10 Min

#tutorial #beginners #ai #python

3 min read

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