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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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MaxxMini

Feb 23

How I Prepared My Show HN Launch — A Solo Dev Checklist

#showdev #webdev #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Salma Aga Shaik

Feb 22

AWS S3 Storage Classes (Start to End)

#aws #beginners #cloud #tutorial

8 min read

Brian Kim

Jan 20

Sliding Windows Explained: Sunglasses Analogy with Ruby Code

#algorithms #beginners #ruby #tutorial

2 min read

Ash

Feb 22

I Built a Neural Network from Scratch (No Frameworks) - Here's What I Discovered

#machinelearning #neuralnetworks #python #beginners

6 min read

Jan 20

Day 4 : How Machines Learn From Their Mistakes

#machinelearning #datascience #ai #beginners

2 min read

Feb 22

How I Reduced Load Time by 60 Percent

#beginners #career #performance #webdev

4 min read

Jan 21

When Servers Catch Fire: Mastering DevOps Incident Response 🔥

#beginners #programming #devops #go

6 min read

Jan 19

Building Tree Views with react-arborist in React

#webdev #programming #beginners #tutorial

6 min read

Aaron King

Jan 19

Building Interactive Graph Visualizations with React Sigma.js

#react #webdev #beginners #tutorial

5 min read

Eric Lewis

Jan 19

Advanced Mini Chart Visualizations with React Sparklines

#react #webdev #beginners #tutorial

5 min read

Eric Lewis

Jan 19

Getting Started with React Timeseries Charts: Visualizing Time-Based Data in React

#react #webdev #beginners #tutorial

6 min read

Aaron King

Jan 19

Getting Started with React Highcharts: Creating Interactive Charts in React

#react #webdev #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

Aaron King

Jan 19

Advanced Data Visualizations with React Chart.js 2

#react #webdev #tutorial #beginners

6 min read

Aaron King

Jan 19

Building Interactive Charts with ECharts for React

#react #webdev #tutorial #beginners

6 min read

Jan 19

Advanced Context Menus with mantine-contextmenu in React

#react #webdev #beginners #tutorial

7 min read

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