There's not a viable alternative for hands-on understanding, however for most
understudies, genuine devices can be cost restrictive. That is the reason we made the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our accomplices and companions: to give understudies free access to the best engineer devices in one place so they can learn by doing.
More than 100,000 students have officially exploited free access to GitHub, on the whole pushing code more than 50,000 times each day. With the GitHub Student Developer Pack, students now have free access to a whole suite of helpful developer tools, including:
Atom —
atom.io
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
Open Source by GitHub, free for everyone
Bitnami —
bitnami.com Install cloud applications in a single click
Business 3 plan (normally $49/month) for one year
Crowdflower —
crowdflower.com Crowdsourcing and data enrichment platform
Access to the Crowdflower platform (normally $2,500/month) and $50 in worker credit
DigitalOcean —
digitalocean.com Simple cloud hosting, built for developers
$100 in platform credit for new users
DNSimple —
dnsimple.com Simple DNS management with one-click services and a robust API
Bronze hosted DNS plan (normally $3/month) for two years
GitHub —
github.com Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management
Micro account (normally $7/month) with five private repositories while you're a student
HackHands —
hackhands.com Live programming help available 24/7
$25 in platform credit
Namecheap —
namecheap.com Domain name registration and SSL certificates
One year free domain name registration on the .me TLD (normally 8.99/year) and one year free SSL certificate (normally $9/year)
Orchestrate —
orchestrate.io Database API that includes search, time-series events, geolocation and graph queries
Developer account (normally $49/month) while you're a student
Screenhero —
screenhero.com Screen sharing for collaboration in teams
Individual account (normally $9.99/month) while you're a student
SendGrid —
sendgrid.com Email infrastructure as a service
Student plan (normally $4.95/month) for one year
Stripe —
stripe.com Web and mobile payments, built for developers
Waived transaction fees on first $1,000 in revenue processed
Travis CI —
travis-ci.com Continuous integration platform for open source and private projects
Private builds (normally $69/month) while you're a student
Unreal Engine —
unrealengine.com A complete suite of game development tools made by game developers, for game developers
Unreal Engine (normally $19/month) while you're a student
Get your pack
If you're a student aged 13+ and enrolled in degree or diploma granting course of study, the GitHub Student Developer Pack is for you. All you need is a one of the following:
- School-issued email address
- Valid student identification card
- Other official proof of enrollment (enrollment letter, transcript, etc)
Get your GitHub Student Developer Pack
If you're already using GitHub with a student account, you've automatically been given access to the developer pack. You can access all the offers at
https://education.github.com/pack.
Join the pack
If your company produces developer tools and wants to be included in the pack,
pass us a note.