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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Chinese Proverb

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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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Sep 25 '18

Developing Style: Sinatra Security, Decorator Design Pattern

#beginners #webdev #ruby #security

14 min read

Heiker

Sep 18 '18

Setting up tape testing framework for basic frontend development

#javascript #testing #beginners

6 min read

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Tim Smith

Sep 11 '18

Let's build a search bar in React!

#react #beginners #javascript

13 min read

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Sep 17 '18

Using Print Statements Are A Handy Way to Debug and Explore Code

#beginners #learning #productivity #webdev

6 min read

Milecia

Sep 18 '18

How To Put Arrows at the Bottom of a Div

#webdev #beginners #html #css

3 min read

Sep 19 '18

Demystifying Array.reduce(): How to understand it and when to use it in your code

#javascript #node #react #beginners

3 min read

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Sep 23 '18

How to add "Preview Mode" style functionality to a Rails application

#rails #beginners

4 min read

Sep 19 '18

What is top 5 most valuable courses in a CS Degree?

#discuss #help #beginners #devconfession

1 min read

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Sep 12 '18

I worked on MSN, Live, and Bing Search at Microsoft, Ask Me Anything!

#ama #career #search #beginners

1 min read

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Sep 17 '18

How to ask good questions as a developer

#beginners #devtips #learning #webdev

5 min read

Sep 21 '18

Stacks n Queues

#webdev #career #computerscience #beginners

4 min read

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Jia Ming for Uilicious

Sep 21 '18

What I have learnt from a 14 hours project 😼

#opensource #beginners #webdev

2 min read

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Aug 28 '18

A Complete Beginner's Guide to React

#beginners #react #javascript #frontend

15 min read

Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦

Sep 17 '18

How I broke Dev.to on my First PR

#discuss #beginners #devops

1 min read

Jess Chace

Sep 20 '18

Voter Registration by New York Congressional Districts for 2018 Midterm Elections

#python #heroku #dash #beginners

5 min read

tommy-3

Sep 19 '18

Learning Algorithms with JS, Python and Java 8: Sentence Capitalization

#beginners #javascript #python #java

2 min read

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Ryan Palo

Sep 16 '18

Binary and Hexadecimal: Part 2 - Conversions

#computerscience #basics #beginners #binary

8 min read

Sep 10 '18

Bash from scratch: learn enough bash to write your own scripts

#bash #shell #beginners #productivity

9 min read

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Tailo Mateus Gonsalves

Sep 17 '18

Testing applications with Cypress

#showdev #testing #beginners

4 min read

Sep 14 '18

Paying it Forward: Teaching Family to Code

#beginners #career #inspiring

2 min read

Douglas R Andreani

Sep 16 '18

MY Top 5 youtube channels (code version)

#youtube #dev #beginners

2 min read

Sep 17 '18

Using GitHub as a team

#github #opensource #beginners #git

3 min read

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Sep 14 '18

The Blessing of Rejection (or Growing Past the "No")

#interviewing #career #beginners

5 min read

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malik

Sep 5 '18

Helpful Terminal Commands for Beginners!

#beginners #bash #productivity #linux

5 min read

Judith

Sep 15 '18

A gift for new devs

#beginners #career

1 min read

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