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

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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Lucas Lima

May 25

Starting my 'Learning in Public' Journey

#beginners #codenewbie #devjournal #learning

1 min read

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Bright Agbomado

May 25

TIL a PowerPoint file is just a zip — so I converted .pptx to Word entirely in the browser

#webdev #seo #programming #beginners

2 min read

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May 25

I Let an AI Agent Loose on My Codebase. Here's What Actually Happened.

#discuss #ai #beginners #productivity

3 min read

Joseph Tan

May 25

Hello everyone! Glad to join the dev.to community

#watercooler #beginners #community #learning

1 min read

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May 25

I built a dark admin dashboard template in HTML — no React, no npm, just pure HTML

#showdev #webdev #beginners #programming

1 min read

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Gg ff

May 25

I had zero coding knowledge. Here is "RetroTube", a 2010 YouTube sandbox prototype I built using AI!

#showdev #ai #beginners #sideprojects

2 min read

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bhuvaneswari nandhagopal

May 25

VON NEUMAN ARCHITECTURE

#beginners #python

1 min read

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A timber's diary

#productivity #webdev #beginners #pwa

9 min read

Gopichand

May 24

Transfer Fees, Metadata, and Soulbound Tokens: A Tour of Solana Token Extensions

#100daysofsolana #blockchain #web3 #beginners

4 min read

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TechMind

May 25

When lowercase Matters More Than You Think - A Developer's Perspective

#webdev #javascript #tools #beginners

1 min read

May 24

Accessibility (a11y) for SEO and AEO

#webdev #a11y #wcag #beginners

28 min read

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Joao Melo

May 25

AI That Actually Does Stuff: Autonomous Agents Explained

#agents #ai #automation #beginners

4 min read

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Saravanan Lakshmanan

May 25

Class and Pseudo Class

#beginners #css #html #webdev

3 min read

DAFFA AHMAD AL ATTAS

May 24

From Zero and Confused, This Is How I Started Learning to Code

#webdev #programming #productivity #beginners

3 min read

May 25

Why Java Still Rules the Programming World in 2026

#beginners #coding #java #programming

2 min read

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