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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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Devanshu Biswas

Jun 23

PCA From Scratch: Compress Data, Keep the Signal

#machinelearning #ai #datascience #beginners

1 min read

Devanshu Biswas

Jun 23

Vector Databases: Search by Meaning, at Scale

#ai #llm #database #beginners

1 min read

Jun 23

Day 1 launch numbers and why I'm ignoring the upvote count today

#buildinpublic #startup #beginners #ai

1 min read

Jun 23

Build a tarot reader in Node.js with an open 78-card dataset (no scraping)

#javascript #node #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Jun 22

Three Rounds of Training Turn a Word-Predictor Into a Chatbot. None of Them Are Magic.

#ai #machinelearning #llm #beginners

7 min read

4rldur0

Jun 22

최소한의 Git 가이드

#beginners #git #github #tutorial

2 min read

Devanshu Biswas

Jun 22

I Rebuilt GitHub's Contribution Graph in CSS Grid

#css #javascript #webdev #beginners

1 min read

Devanshu Biswas

Jun 23

Reranking: Retrieve Fast, Then Reorder Precisely (Better RAG)

#ai #rag #llm #beginners

1 min read

Spicy

Jun 22

Two-Factor Auth Isn't the Shield You Think It Is.

#webdev #beginners #security

4 min read

Tminus1sec base.eth

Jun 22

Learning Midnight: nothing goes public by accident

#midnight #zeroknowledge #blockchain #beginners

2 min read

Jun 22

Week 7: My First Agorithms.

#python #beginners #careerdevelopment

10 min read

Jun 23

I Thought Coroutines Were Enough. (Flow, StateFlow, MutableStateFlow)

#android #beginners #flow #stateflow

4 min read

Ramesh S

Jun 23

Python for Beginners — Part 7: Modules, Errors & Files

#beginners #codenewbie #python #tutorial

6 min read

Jun 22

Understanding Statistical Distributions and Their Impact on Data Science

#datascience #machinelearning #python #beginners

4 min read

Jun 22

How I Automated My LeetCode Tracking to GitHub (and Added Live Streak Cards)

#beginners #github #leetcode #productivity

1 min read

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