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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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Harsh

Feb 22

7 Hours, 12.5 Million Lines of Code? What OpenAI and Anthropic Just Did Changes Everything for Developers

#discuss #ai #programming #beginners

5 min read

Jan 21

I Stopped Guessing HTML & CSS and Followed This Simple Plan (It Actually Worked)

#webdev #beginners #html #css

3 min read

Esimit Karlgusta

Feb 24

Beyond find(): Mastering MongoDB Aggregations for Real-Time SaaS Analytics

#saas #webdev #programming #beginners

3 min read

Feb 24

How I cut my AI API costs 79% — the boring stuff that actually worked

#beginners #devops #ai #optimization

4 min read

Sachin Kr. Rajput

Jan 21

Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1: The Four Judges Who Disagree on What Makes a Good Wolf Detector

#machinelearning #datascience #python #beginners

10 min read

Krzysztof Fraus

Feb 24

Why you know the answer but freeze in technical interviews

#performance #career #programming #beginners

7 min read

Feb 24

I Let AI Write 100% of My Code for a Week — Here's What Actually Happened

#ai #programming #productivity #beginners

4 min read

Sachin Kr. Rajput

Jan 21

PCA Explained: Finding the Perfect Angle to Photograph a Sculpture So You Capture Everything in One Shot

#datascience #python #beginners #programming

10 min read

Sachin Kr. Rajput

Jan 21

Imbalanced Datasets: When Your Model Gets 99% Accuracy by Being Completely Useless

#datascience #python #beginners #programming

11 min read

MaxxMini

Feb 24

I Built 23 Free Developer Tools in 2 Weeks — Here's What Actually Worked

#webdev #javascript #productivity #beginners

6 min read

Sachin Kr. Rajput

Jan 21

Outliers: The Art of Deciding Whether That 3,000 kg Penguin Is a Data Entry Error or an Actual Monster

#datascience #python #beginners #programming

13 min read

Sachin Kr. Rajput

Jan 21

SMOTE: The Creature Creation Lab That Saves Your Minority Class From Extinction

#datascience #python #beginners #programming

10 min read

Sachin Kr. Rajput

Jan 21

Handling Categorical Variables: Teaching Your Model to Understand "Red," "Blue," and "Green" Without Having a Mental Breakdown

#datascience #python #beginners #programming

11 min read

Sachin Kr. Rajput

Jan 21

Label Encoding: The Simple Trick That's Either Genius or Disaster Depending on One Question

#datascience #python #beginners #programming

9 min read

Sachin Kr. Rajput

Jan 21

Normalization vs Standardization: The Tale of Two Translators Who Speak Different Languages

#datascience #python #beginners #programming

11 min read

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