What are general guidelines and advices to estimate how much you should charge for a project, being a novice freelancer?

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I am an experienced programmer but completely new to the market. Someone wants me to do a project for them, but I do not know how much it is worth. What are general guidelines/advices for finding what a project is worth on the market?

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