Best DEV.to Posts for Beginners: Week of July 23, 2019
Tags: codenewbie, beginners, tutorial, bestofdev
Published: 2019-07-29 18:38:47

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title: Best DEV.to Posts for Beginners: Week of July 23, 2019
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description: These are some of the best beginner posts of the week from the DEV community!
tags: #codenewbie, #beginner, #tutorial, #bestofdev
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One of the reasons I've been so drawn to DEV.to over other platforms is the super encouraging and helpful community that gathers here. Initially I felt like it was going to be more a place where I sat back and watched, rather than write and contribute, but I've been so pleased to find not only helpful articles and tutorials that I understand, but also that input from new coders and devs is well-received.

I thought it would be nice to compile some of the best posts every week for those of us who still identify as #codenewbies!

First up - the DEV Community wrote a book! _Your First Year in Code_, edited by Isaac Lyman, is available now (and I have a chapter in it, yay!) It's full of helpful tips for navigating your code career, and though it's geared toward newbies, there's plenty for anyone to learn from.

{% link https://dev.to/devteam/the-dev-community-published-a-book-your-first-year-in-code-1ejk %}

{% link https://dev.to/kaylasween/what-even-is-em-4j64 %}

When I first learned to code lo those many years ago on Geocities, font size was (usually) defined as `px`. I go away for a few years, come back, and everything is measuring in `em`. I never really stopped to think about what it means or why it's referred to that way, but Kayla breaks it down for us!

{% link https://dev.to/attacomsian/getting-dom-elements-using-javascript-4do0 %}



{% link https://dev.to/dvddpl/this-year-i-decided-to-learn-hand-writing-pronto-da-pubblicare-2334 %}

Repeat after me: _life is not only about work_. It's important to have other hobbies or goals outside the office. This year I've really been focusing on improving my bullet journal doodles (and I think I'm coming along nicely, if I do say so myself) so it's great to see another DEV-er putting pen to paper as well!

{% link https://dev.to/haseebelaahi/how-to-work-with-a-not-so-perfect-codebase-based-on-my-experience-of-working-in-one-3pb1 %}

Diving in to a giant, existing codebase is often one of the biggest sources of panic for beginners starting their first dev job. Keep calm and learn from others' experience.

{% link https://dev.to/deciduously/getting-cozy-with-c-4j8n %}

I'm not going to pretend that I know the first thing about C++, but I do know that it's empowering to see other community members who are more senior in their code and programming knowledge take on something new! 

{% link https://dev.to/azure/learning-python-from-scratch-basic-data-types-5ac7 %}

Python is the next language I want to take on, so I'm bookmarking lots of articles about it lately. I love the breakdown of the topics learned in the Twitch stream - plus it's replayable on Youtube and Twitch!

{% link https://dev.to/mgreiler/the-ultimate-code-review-blog-post-series-3k2 %}

Three cheers for code reviews! Michaela uses her experience and tips picked up while working for Microsoft to create a comprehensive blog post series about it, including an ebook with best practices and a study guide.

{% link https://dev.to/nikpoltoratsky/debugging-you-re-doing-it-wrong-10-techniques-to-find-a-bug-in-your-code-4f41 %}

I love finding bugs, and I'll always be a bug hunter at heart. This post is great not only for newbie developers who are thinking through where their issues might be coming from, but also other employees across your company - not everyone is going to sit down and rubber duck out a problem, but they might think to open the console and take a screenshot, which is super handy for hard to recreate bugs!