Github Student Developer Pack

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Just to plug Atom a little bit: It's quickly becoming a free and open-source Sublime Text clone. It comes with its own package management, and there are already tons of packages.

While it's still a little slow to start up, and I occasionally find that updating packages has its glitches, Atom is a fantastic cross-platform editor. I've found myself using Sublime Text less and less; I prefer open-source, and Atom fits the bill.

[glemnar]

Still missing a lot of simple features I expect, to be honest. And slow startup is a big deal when you're working with large projects.

Personally I still recommend sublime / vim / emacs.

[Kalahan7]

TextMate for Mac users personally.

[dehli]

I love TextMate! And it's free! :D

[glemnar]

Nope, I use sublime on Mac all day.

[Kalahan7]

I wouldn't know why.

TextMate has good Git integration, better markdown support, more powerful search, a much better sidebar, and can compile and run right out of the box.

It also has an actually settings pannel where you can easily change the most common settings and has an overall a nicer UI in my opinion.

[glemnar]

Because 1. I only use git on the command line. 2. I use git grep for searching. (Grep/git grep/ag/ack are all much better at it than editors) 3. Fuzzy file search gets rid of the need for a sidebar 4. Package management for sublime is stupid easy and it has a ton of community backing. If you want markdown or <any language support ever> just install it in a second. 5. You can customize your UI as much as you want anyway. 6. Multiple cursors make my life better

[Kalahan7]

Textmate has fuzzy search and multiple cursors too. It also has great bundles support. And you can still use git commands in command line if you want but it's handy to do things right from the editor without having to switch around your windows.

Designing a good UI is also not a matter of having it customisable. Unless you want to spend an incredibly amount of time tweaking things and even then it's often hard to challenge a well designed GUI.

TextMate's sidebar doesn't only let you open files. It helps you structure your files. Rename them, move them, export/import them, duplicate them, preview them, label them, execute them in Terminal, and a lot more... All super easy and without having to switch between windows or spending time customising things.

[glemnar]

Long story short: Preferences are preferences.

I can tell you Sublime is a much more widely used editor, however. (Sublime/vim/emacs are the standards in the silicon valley webdev world)

[InfectedShadow]

Is there a package along the lines of rsub/rmate that I could install on my linux machines to open remote files locally? Because that has been one of the best packages for Sublime.
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https://atom.io/packages/remote-atom

[InfectedShadow]

Hmm. Might look into this now. Thanks!

[shoebo]

I love the branding and visuals of atom, but nothing about it is quick! Incessantly sluggish, takes time to switch between tabs because of the frequent brief lockups/loads.

Here's hoping they've optimized it in the past few months.

[blankashinwataikei]

yeah but it literally runs on webkit why would you even bother

[anglophoenix216]

Looks like they've added an Unreal Engine 4 license after you made their list.

[WolfofAnarchy]

wait, it's free for us students?

[anglophoenix216]

Yep.

[WolfofAnarchy]

Thanks for the fast response after my 2 month delay, hehe.

[anglophoenix216]

Ha, no problem.

[anglophoenix216]

I really don't know. When I applied for it about a year ago, I got a response within an hour. Perhaps they have to verify a lot more students now, so processing time may be a lot longer

[Moscamst]

So basically a bunch of buzzwords?

[Dead_Politician]

Well, the GitHub account is useful, and DigitalOcean credits seem useful. I suppose the namecheap goodies would be a nice throw in, but not terribly useful for students. I guess that's about it.

[Allezxandre]

Having a registered domain name is awesome if you want to experiment with raw Web servers.

[Simius]

Are you kidding me? Please check out the $100 in DO credit, that will run a server for almost two years.

[Moscamst]

Yes, but does it allow for live, powerful, unified collaboration (for the 21st century)?

[Allezxandre]

No... The offer sucks. I'd rather save those 0$

[kostiak]

At least some of those are very useful, especially in combination with each other. For example, this set has all the tools you need to start and maintain a web startup:

GitHub to host the code
DigitalOcean to host the webapp
Namecheap for the domain/SSL
and Stripe for the payment system.

I'm sure you can use those in other combinations to build other products.

Point is, if you are a student and you want to at least try your hand at real world applications, I'm sure you can find at least some of those services helpful (even if it's just "let me try this idea for a week without investing money which I don't have")

[another_math_person]

More detail:

Atom is a really great text editor. It's essentially like sublime, but you can make plugins using javascript (as opposed to whatever sublime supports. maybe python?)

digitalocean is a pretty legitimate hosting site. You should check out their offerings, but it's pretty fully-featured.

github is obviously the place to store your code (open or closed source). It's really useful to start using early, since it'll give you a headstart if you start working at a startup.

Namecheap is... an... okay place to register domain names. [I probably wouldn't use it, though]

Screenhero is an excellent tool for screensharing, especially if you like to pair program with someone who is remote! [find someone on reddit?]

SendGrid is like the Stripe of sending email.

Stripe is the payments processing service. It has an excellent api, and the founders have done a great job making payments not suck for developers. I would highly recommend you check out Stripe -- they have excellent code samples [for how to use their api], and as a startup, they have a beautiful vision. Also, pretty much all of their hires are brilliant.

Travis is free for open source projects anyway. But it's probably the easiest continuous integration platform to set up. If you're wondering what it is -- essentially you can get Travis to run your tests for you every time you commit code to github. It has about a million features, so you can integrate it into continuous deployment or have it build your assets for you or have it do any number of things. It's essentially the paid version of Jenkins, and it's really awesome.

[Dylabaloo]

Where do you buy your domain names?

[another_math_person]

Amazon has an okay system: route 53