In fact, I would advise newbies to stay away from altcoins and only invest in Bitcoin in order to be on the safe side of the game, as there will be many shitcoins that will not recover after this bear market.
I wonder why a newbie would even want to invest in altcoins. Crypto newbies may not even be aware of how to look at a project white paper and identify if there are some tricky things with it. Newbies don't know fully well how to check the Twitter, Telegram, LinkedIn, Discord, and other social platforms of a project to decide if it's a project to risk their funds for. So newbies wasting their time on altcoins may result in the fact that they are just burrying their funds in a snowy environment that cannot melt when warmth comes. It is wise if newbies clearly stay away from altcoins. Even some experienced crypto enthusiasts sometimes get disappointed along the way when they try to take advantage of some altcoin pump and dump price manipulation.