I don't see the need to have seperate forums. We are all beginners in some areas or fields. As long as beginners can be directed to the right tracks (or hyperlinks to the tutorials), they will be grateful.

Seperating in different forums can also kill the freedom of expression. There are just so many wonderful thoughts that don't fit in categories easily.

Likewise, in micro-controller area, it doesn't make a lot of sense to define someone as a software engineer, a firmware engineer, a hardware engineer, a system engineer, a product engineer, or a marketing engineer.

However, for a single forum, it will be nice that if the messages can be sorted by date, or by topics, and etc.

Regards,
Oliver