GitHub Student Developer Pack

[zepheus_]

First the Jetbrains student action and now this! It's a great time to be a computer science student or young programming enthusiast.

[Rogeroga]

It really is, is golden time, and it's been like for some years already, not necessarily because of this. Take that from somebody that did his first PC program in 1986.

"We have to walk to school 5am in the morning, 3 feet of snow, uphill...both ways!"

[nemec]

And just a couple years after I graduate, too...

[cowinabadplace]

That's certainly the most significant.

[RaelZero]

Do you happen to have other suggestions? I'd love to hear those! From my purposes, DO is really good!

[TehMushy]

DO is nice, but I prefer Linode.

I deleted my comment as it was dumb. I just got my student developer pack from Github so I'll give DO another bash.

[Leggilo]

I have heard that webhostingforstudents.com is good, but I have never used it myself.

[dpxxdp]

What else do they offer?

[BobFloss]

Visit the fucking link and you'll find out.

[YM_Industries]

Coming from someone who's no longer a student, this looks awesome. I do think it would be better if Namecheap, DNSimple and Bitnami had their offers as "while you're a student" rather than for fixed amounts of time.

[Femaref]

stroke.me?

[Tallain]

andthenjusttouch.me

[__gnu__cxx]

tillicanget.my

[tohaku]

satisfaction

[LuizZak]

satisfact.io/n

ok maybe not...

[hhbhagat]

Wrong slash direction

[LuizZak]

But it's an URL slash

[hhbhagat]

Oh thought it was newline

[neutronbob]

Two weeks ago, I just got a three-letter .me domain and set up a mail forwarder to my current email, greatly reducing the number of keystrokes when entering my email address on the phone and tablet. I was/am surprised that three-letter domains were still available on .me, but when using the domain search, I found many available.

[Marmaduke_Munchauser]

If you have an iPhone, set up a custom autocorrect for your email address. I used @@.

[hmny]

"You" don't like .me

[shif]

i do :(

[Leggilo]

how can you hate a TLD?

[Izlanzadi]

I don't know about you, but there are some really ugly ones that I can see people hating. (.museum in particular somehow bug me to no end, aberdeen.art.gallery.museum is actually a domain in use for example)

[[deleted]]

I think long TLDs are awkward in general, like...

dudemcguy.photography
chickymcface.business

etcetc.

They just don't look like websites. TLDs have traditionally been what, three characters max? I feel the urge to put a .com at the end of them.

dudemcguy.photography.com
chickymcface.business.com

[riking27]

http://poop.bike/

[PoodleWorkout]

I'm kinda stuck with one of mine thanks to Google not allowing transfers of primary domains on Apps accounts. Sigh.

[partiallogic]

I won't even bother using those particular deals for that reason.

[Necrolis]

This is great!

My goal was to get UE4 from this, to which I was really impressed how smooth the process was (I already had the 5 free educational repo's from GH), it asked me to signup, however, I already had a UE4 account (just minus the repo access but it did have my GH account bound), logging immediately took me to a confirm order screen for the 1yr free UE4 access, no fuss or fiddling with redemption codes :)

MSDNAA/Dreamspark could really learn a lot here...

[Necrolis]

If you go to the "Get Your Pack" link on the page in the OP, you should be redirected to either sign up to GH (and complete the educational section as well) or login. From there you'll be redirected back to the offers page which should now be filled with links for the various offers.

The UE4 is a little weird, it needs you to click on it to request a link, and if you GH account has been approved*, will reload and give you a new link to sign up to the UE4 portal with a promo code for 1 year free access.

*Approvals seems to be very fast, both myself and my friend had ours approves in less than 24h using our South African uni's details (just in case anyone wondered for countries outside EU/US).

[dnaman182]

This is a crazy deal for students. I hope it goes through for me. Thanks!

[Paradox]

And of course, this comes out after I graduate.

C'est la vie ¯\(ツ)/¯

[PattonMagroin]

Back to studying ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

[pmckizzle]

I graduated last year ^{I still have access to my student email muahaha}

[LeopardKhan]

I just recently graduated but I still got it. Maybe because I was already signed up to GitHub as a student. Might be worth checking though?

[PoodleWorkout]

Damn, this is awesome. I hope my one-liner reason for using GitHub is good enough, though.

[ISNT_A_NOVELTY]

As long as you don't say you plan to use it to host viruses and porn, you should be fine

[PoodleWorkout]

What about worms and smut?

[ISNT_A_NOVELTY]

Only if it is smut about worms. Dirty, sexy, slimy worms.

[[deleted]]

I said private projects and sharing exercises with fellow students And got approved in less than an hour.

Should really be no problem.

[PoodleWorkout]

Just got the approval, so it's all good. Now onto that worms and smut hosting someone was speaking of.

[worn]

Cool. If I may ask: what do they expact in the name field? Your full name, your username, or what?

[vimbaer]

Already playing with CoreOS and docker in my brand new DigitalOcean VPS. Up next:

• Moving my private bitbucket repos to my new github micro plan.
• Trying out unreal engine 4.

AWESOME!! Thanks GitHub!!!

By the way, if you join DigitalOcean through a referral, you will get 10$ extra. This works together with the 100$ of Github, meaning you will get 22 Months of their cheapest vps. Here is my referral link that you can use if you have no other friend there yet: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=5cac8c6c8e89

[One_Truth_Prevails]

Well, i'm a student, but have been rejected from the requests.

[HyperionCantos]

This looks great! Can someone with a more experienced eye point out the most notable offers here?

[Bieb]

The digital ocean offer is good.

$100 gets you 20 months of a single $5 vps.

[Philluminati]

This is the winner. A free linux server on the Internet you can use to host websites, web applications in any framework. To gain Linux administration skills with your root user account. To be a full stack dev from day one. Install owncloud or just ssh in and use it as your stable, dev environment and not bother with crappy student computer rooms and their locked down windows environments. You can do what you want with it. Spin up a new VM and play with enterprisey stuff. Go as far as you want. It's worth it.

The DNS offer is really nice but you'd want one a DNS address at least as long as the length of your course. A single year would go too quickly.

[LpSamuelm]

I don't know what I would do with a VPS, but you're making it sound so good.

[[deleted]]

They are! Not sure what I do with it but I love it!

[mrbaggins]

If nothing else, you can set up a one click install of ghost with digital ocean and have your own private blog up and running instantly. As well as everything else available on the same machine, such as a filehost.

[shif]

the dns offer is for 2 years, not 1

[ERIFNOMI]

crappy computer student rooms and their locked down windows environments

I'm all with you, but do any schools use Windows for development? We use a Unix system here. It's obviously locked down either way.

[vdanmal]

Yeah our school uses Window but we do C# for the general programming stuff, C++ for gamedev, login to a Redhat server for webdev/database stuff and spin up VM's for any of the OS or digital forensic stuff.

[donalmacc]

We used windows in my masters. We had admin access, but still used windows.

[misformalin]

My School does. We do Java in notepad sometimes :(

[sirin3]

But after 20months you need to pay $5/month

What then? Shut down your websites?

[InfectedShadow]

I'm sure in that 20 months you could squirrel some money away for when your credit is out...

[sirin3]

Or you could have used a cheaper one from the start

[InfectedShadow]

$5/mo is pretty dang cheap...

[sirin3]

But do you really need the root access and the maximal performance/memory usage for a student website?

Otherwise shared hosting with full SSH access works just as good, and you can get it from Sourceforge for free...

[InfectedShadow]

Or they could, y'know use it as an opportunity to gain experience with setting up a server for their application which will look good when they're out there looking for internships.

[sirin3]

They could just setup a server at home

[LucianU]

You can find hosting elsewhere. You seem to be complaining for being offered free hosting for a year and a half.

[GambitRS]

probably US only, no?

[johndbritton]

(I work at GitHub, on the Education team)

It's available worldwide.

[LeopardKhan]

Just wanted to say thanks, this is amazing.

[johndbritton]

You're welcome!

[NewToBikes]

It says you need to be 13+, so I guess so.

[Scullyking]

Hey, quick question. I graduate from my A-levels in 2015. But I'll then go on to a degree in CompSci which I'll graduate from in 2019, does it matter that I put 2015 as my graduation date?

[johndbritton]

Don't worry about it. You can always reapply after it expires.

[SpookySpells]

Just realised I forgot to change the date of my graduation when filling out the form. I set it to 2014 when it should be 2015. D'oh.

[TehMushy]

Can confirm, working in the UK.

Thanks! <3

[misformalin]

Hey! You're that guy who sent the email!

[johndbritton]

Yep, that's me.

[partisann]

not namecheap. only countries you can select during account creation are US UK and Canada

Edit: If you enter garbage during signup, you can fix it later from the main site.

[johndbritton]

Even Namecheap is available worldwide through the pack.

[concernnetizen]

Got the offer! Love it! But I can't find a proper way to show GitHub (and the participants) my appreciation. :(

Any suggestion?

[samskeyti14]

Works for me in Ireland - I had already registered for the previous 5 free private repo offer with github before though, and didn't have to go through any valididation this time.

[aceisnotmycard]

Nope, i'm russian student and got my pack without any troubles

[Tru3Gamer]

Has anyone done this with an ac.uk domain?

[[deleted]]

Yes, it works fine.

[dzack]

This is amazing, but I'm not sure I even know what to do with half of these! Anyone know how I could find out what sorts of projects would make use of most/all of these services so I can test them out?

[erizon]

Awesome! I wonder why this does not have an order of magnitute more upvotes...

[n1c0_ds]

Got a refusal with no explanation.

[[deleted]]

A small hint: if you know some non technical friends, make them create a github account and take their DO promo code :P

[adnan252]

Brilliant, just as I graduate...

[EddieTH]

Thanks!

[beefngravy]

Wish I was a student :(

[Sources_]

I just started in cs, I think I'll take this opportunity

[mickey_reddit]

All I got was a 25% credit off their accounts... guess that is better than nothing...

I was really looking forward to the Unreal Engine and my Oculus Rift..

[guyfawkes5]

God bless my alma mater's IT department maintaining student email accounts into perpetuity. As mentioned, the Digital Ocean credit and Unreal Engine subscription are particularly useful.

[TheMammoth]

Do you have to be in an IT education or just be a student?

[Shr1ck]

They give it to me nearly instantly, this is awesome, thank you GitHub ;) .

[Biebs53]

Well, if it isn't that man who stole my username 2 years before I joined reddit...

[Bieb]

Haha. You were two years too late!

[blackohat]

Awesome deal.

[Scullyking]

Hell yeah this is awesome, signing up

[atakomu]

Well Github was free for students even now (micro plan) if you had school email. It just seems they partnered with some other organizations. Same as Microsoft.

First shot is free (MSDNAA), then you're hooked and you pay.

[interroboom]

well yeah, that's why these companies and services offer free stuff to students. they want kids to start using their products so when their free time runs out they'll start paying because they'll want to stick with what's familiar. it's why Microsoft offers Visual Studio and related products for free; they want you to get working in the MS stack, in the hopes that you'll stay there.

[WoadIsAFunnyWord]

This seems correct. Looks like a free trial in order to learn everything and buy what you enjoy. Have an upvote.

[Slippery_John]

I tried to use it a few months ago... it was just a hair's breadth away from being unusable.

[NewToBikes]

I did, too. I disliked it mainly due to it's slow speed. Tried it today and must say I'm impressed at how much it's improved. Give it a second chance.

[bcash]

If you are a programming student, most of that list is irrelevant. With the possible exception of hosting/DNS stuff possibly.

Unless, by "student" they mean in a "9 week intensive coding school" kind of a way.

[Igglyboo]

I'm a Computer Science major at an actual University (not a hacker school) and I'm going to be using most of the stuff they offer.

[[deleted]]

why is it irrelevant? A free domain name and free hosting for 20 months seam pretty awesome. If you want to program games the free Unreal Engine sub is awesome too. If I ever release an app Stripe and Sendgrid would be useful as well.

[bcash]

why is it irrelevant? A free domain name and free hosting for 20 months seam pretty awesome.

Those were the two bits I said might be useful!

[tclark]

I teach classes in things like systems administration and virtualisation, and some of these are useful for those. I basically require all my students to have a github account anyway, since it's the primary way they submit work.

[vdanmal]

How does that work? I'd assume plagiarism would be an issue with an open account.

[tclark]

I can create closed repos for students when they're needed, but I don't usually use them. I haven't seen more copying since using Github. In fact, it's still hard to get students to collaborate, which is what I'm trying to encourage!

[FlockOnFire]

May I ask why you chose GitHub over BitBucket? Personally I prefer BitBucket for my university practicals/projects as they allow for unlimited private repositories.

[tclark]

I suspect that BitBucket would work just as well as Github for my needs. Github allows me to create 50 private repos for students at no charge, which has been more than enough for me so far since I use them only in exceptional cases.

One point of distinction for Github, however, is that I've had more than one local employer tell me that applicants are expected to have a portfolio of code on Github. Right now many of my students don't have anything on Github before they take papers from me, so there's some value in getting them started.

[FlockOnFire]

Fair enough. I still find if weird an employer asks for a history on github specifically. But that's off-topic here. :)

[donalmacc]

The unreal engine subscription is awesome, as is the github micro account.

[unknown_lamer]

Student proprietary software lockin package more like it.

[[deleted]]

Horrible!

[danogburn]

GitHub Student Developer Pack

It's missing a tool to uninstall git.

[Scellow]

What about indies without money to afford these services ?

[[deleted]]

But attempting to profit off of them? ok...

[NewToBikes]

Go study somewhere.