Beginners

For Questions...

Consider using this tag along with #help, if...

You are new to a language, or to programming in general,

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You want insight from more experienced developers.

Please do not use this tag if you are merely new to a tool, library, or framework.

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.

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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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James Anderson

Oct 11

Tech Is Brutal Right Now. Stay or Go? Let's Think Clearly.

#discuss #career #beginners #ai

8 min read

puffball1567

Oct 11

Inside TypeScript 7: How the Compiler Finds Types You Never Wrote

#typescript #go #compiler #beginners

16 min read

Mayur Bodhare

Oct 11

Java Arrays: What Really Sits in Memory

#java #beginners #arrays #programming

8 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Submission 🌿

Abhimanyu Mathur

Oct 11

Ayuda: Your Time, for the Greater Good!

#hf26challenge #ai #beginners #productivity

2 min read

Shahzaib

Oct 11

How I Got 129 Pages Indexed With Zero Budget

#showdev #seo #webdev #beginners

2 min read

Mayur Bodhare

Oct 11

OOP in Java: What Really Happens Behind the Scenes

#java #beginners #oop #programming

9 min read

Mayur Bodhare

Oct 11

Java Variables, Data Types and Type Casting: A Simple Guide with Examples

#java #beginners #programming #tutorial

7 min read

Mayur Bodhare

Oct 11

Java if, switch and Loops: Which One Should You Use?

#java #beginners #programming #tutorial

6 min read

Rudratosh Shastri

Oct 11

The fake 'DEV Support' scam is back, and now it wants your card balance (a living list of every scam hitting dev.to)

#security #phishing #meta #beginners

7 min read

Neha Christina

Oct 11

SQL Query Execution Order: Why Your Query Doesn't Run Top-to-Bottom

#sql #dataengineering #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

Sham Prakash K

Oct 11

Building a Full RAG Pipeline in Spring Boot — From Ingest to Grounded Answer

#ai #java #springboot #beginners

5 min read

Rasim Çarkçı

Oct 11

CORS Explained: Why Your API Requests Fail

#webdev #javascript #api #beginners

6 min read

Uriel Bitton

Oct 11

XML Sitemap Checks for SaaS Docs: Separate a Valid File From Useful URLs

#seo #webdev #beginners #saas

6 min read

Ajit Kumar

Oct 11

Introducing Karkain: My Journey Building a General-Purpose Programming Language

#programming #opensource #compiler #beginners

1 min read

Noor

Oct 11

Why doubling makes a dynamic array O(1) (and the realloc bug almost everyone writes)

#c #programming #beginners #datastructures

2 min read

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