Where to write programming tutorials that help people learn / best platforms to publish tutorials for beginners

If your goal is “write programming tutorials that beginners can actually find and learn from,” I’d use a mix of a developer publishing platform + your own site rather than relying on one place.

Good platforms to consider

Platform	Particularly useful for	Beginner tutorials?	Main advantage
DEV Community	Practical coding tutorials	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐	Developer community + feedback
Hashnode	Tutorials + personal technical blog	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐	Developer-focused, custom domain, Markdown/code support
freeCodeCamp	Structured educational tutorials	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐	Strong learner-oriented audience
In Plain English	Programming/AI/web-development articles	⭐⭐⭐⭐	Large technical-content ecosystem
Medium	General tech + programming	⭐⭐⭐⭐	Broad readership and established publications
GitHub Pages	Documentation/tutorial series	⭐⭐⭐⭐	Excellent for code + tutorials together
Your own website	Long-term educational content	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐	Maximum ownership and SEO control

Current comparisons of developer publishing platforms similarly distinguish DEV for community, Hashnode for developer blogging/ownership, and freeCodeCamp for structured educational content. daily.dev+1

My practical recommendation

If you're starting from scratch:

1. Write the canonical tutorial on your own site or Hashnode. Hashnode is particularly convenient because it supports technical formatting, syntax highlighting, Markdown, custom domains, and canonical URLs. Hashnode

2. Publish/adapt it for DEV Community. This gives you access to an existing developer community where people can discover and discuss the tutorial.

3. Submit your strongest tutorials to freeCodeCamp. This is especially interesting if your material is genuinely educational rather than simply “here's what I built.”

4. Put the code on GitHub. For a beginner tutorial, having:

Article → GitHub repo → runnable example → next tutorial

is much more useful than an article alone.

A particularly good format for beginners

Instead of writing:

“Understanding JavaScript Closures”

I'd structure it more like:

Build a Counter in JavaScript: Understanding Closures Along the Way

Then:

1. What we're going to build
2. Prerequisites
3. Starting code
4. Step 1 — create the basic counter
5. Step 2 — add state
6. Step 3 — introduce the closure
7. Step 4 — explain why it works
8. Common beginner mistakes
9. Complete code
10. Exercises
11. What to learn next

That makes the tutorial useful even to someone who has never encountered the underlying concept.

If you're trying to build an audience

I'd lean toward this stack:

Own site / Hashnode → DEV → GitHub → YouTube/short video (optional)

And make every tutorial part of a series, e.g.:

Learn Python by Building 10 Small Projects

1. CLI calculator
2. Number guessing game
3. Todo CLI
4. File organizer
5. Web scraper
6. REST API client
7. SQLite app
8. Flask API
9. Authentication
10. Deploy it

That gives beginners a reason to come back rather than each article being an isolated Google result.

If you tell me what programming topics you want to teach (Python, JavaScript, React, AI, backend, etc.), I can also suggest 10–20 tutorial topics that are particularly suitable for beginners and likely to form a coherent learning path.