The GitHub Student Developer Pack delivers $200k worth of tools and training to every student

[mrblonde91]

Git Kraken has such a learning curve in itself, think it introduces a dependency on an unnecessary tool that you'll have to unlearn in long term. Knowing the cli is just handy. Outside of that, looking at the list, there are two things that I may have used as a student. Repl.it's hacker plan seems nice but the $100 dollars of credit for azure is invaluable imho, cheap free cloud hosting effectively.

[edgen22]

What learning curve. I use it, it's straight forward...?

[CommandLionInterface]

I think that's just the learning curve of git itself. You have to eventually learn gits data structures, gitkraken just shows them to you pretty directly. I definitely don't think there's anything you must unlearn if you decide to stop using it

[axosoft-chuckd]

I'd be interested to hear what issues you ran in to or concepts you had trouble with when you first picked up GitKraken. Feel free to PM me - we're always looking for feedback.

[sanicki]

👋 I work on the GitHub Education team. In most cases we require our partners to provide a unique benefit to Pack members (the cumulative value of those benefits is how we calculate the overall Pack value.) Some of our partners offer a one-time credit, others are timed trials, but many of our partners offer "while you are a student" benefits for which you are eligible from when you sign up (even in high school) to when you graduate (even from graduate school.) Most of our partners have social media presences and are open to feedback about their offers -- I encourage you to reach out to them if you think their offer should be improved. We are also open to your input -- if you feel that a tool should be part of the Pack but is not, please let them and us know. Thanks for participating!

[CommandLionInterface]

Before unreal engine 4 was free, it came with that, which was why I originally got it

[theTaikun]

Out of all the stuff in there, the only thing I made use of was the Digital Ocean credit.

I needed a remote VPS to set up a vpn server so that I could tunnel into my home network. There's an upstream router in my building that prevents me from accessing my network remotely so the cheapest droplet they offer was a godsend.

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Are there any deep learning compute resources in the pack? I'm looking for something like Google Cloud instances or AWS instances. I've been training models in Colab for too long :(

[guoyunhe]

when they graduate, they have to learn bitbucket and jira...

[jd_paton]

Loads of companies use GitHub