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Discussion on: My thoughts on "beginner content"

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Samuel-Zacharie FAURE

I've been a professional webdev for only 3 years, so I'm very much a beginner. Here's my stance on the issue :

  • The best content is sometimes written by beginners themselves. They know what's easy and what's hard for fellow beginners

  • The quality of beginner content doesn't depend on how advanced the tech skill of the author is, it depends on the clarity of the author.

  • The worse content is usually the content hastily written (or worse, plagiarized) in order to increase visitor counts or make money (Looking at you, that-other-website-where-developers-write !)

  • The best content is usually the content you wished to find as a beginner, but never found; therefore you decided to write it yourself. It is motivated by a genuine desire to help rather than self-interest.

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Abhishek Gupta

Thanks for chiming in Samuel. Couldn't agree more! Specially #2 and #4