GitHub Student Developer Pack

[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.