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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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Jan 13

What Junior Developers Get Wrong About “Clean Code”

#beginners #career #codequality

3 min read

Feb 6

🐰📦 Introducing Bunny‑Box — A Playful Multi‑Tool Web App for Everyday Tasks

#discuss #webdev #beginners #productivity

2 min read

Gathuru_M

Jan 18

Want to Learn Git and GitHub? A Step-by-Step Guide to Version Control

#beginners #github #git #datascience

4 min read

Dinesh

Jan 11

Why My First Animation Blueprint Didn’t Work in Unreal Engine

#gamedev #unrealengine #beginners #animation

2 min read

Jan 15

Networking 101 #5. DNS Explained

#devops #networking #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

Theophilus Shekwo Sakoma

Jan 14

Starting From Zero: My First Real Win Learning Cloud & DevOps on Windows

#beginners #linux #devops #career

3 min read

Jan 14

Sliding Window Intuition for Absolute Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide

#leetcode #slidingwindow #beginners #interviewprep

3 min read

Guillermo Mejia

Feb 17

From Zero to Monorepo: Angular v21 MFE with Native Federation

#angular #webdev #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

Feb 17

Method Overloading in JAVA - Compile-time Polymorphism

#beginners #java #oop #programming

1 min read

MaxxMini

Feb 17

10 AI Prompts That Will 10x Your Coding Productivity

#ai #productivity #programming #beginners

8 min read

Feb 17

Access Modifiers in Java

#beginners #java #oop #programming

3 min read

Feb 16

Python Internals: Generators & Coroutines

#python #performance #cleancode #beginners

8 min read

Jan 14

Prometheus + Grafana: Your 3AM Debugging Superheroes 🦸‍♂️

#beginners #programming #devops #monitoring

3 min read

Jan 18

A Beginner's Guide to Git : Understanding Version Control

#versioncontrol #git #beginners #programming

3 min read

Jan 13

Why Flutter beats React Native ?

#flutter #beginners #programming #reactnative

2 min read

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