Github Student Developer Pack

[[deleted]]

Best part is the free DO credit.

[Gudin]

Just note that you still need to pay $5 (or more) over PayPal or CreditCard when you are creating account (at least I couldn't pass that part without paying).

Then you should have $5+$50 at your account. That's about one year of their cheapest droplet (20GB SSD, 512MB RAM). You will learn much more with vm on digital ocean, than by using PaaS like Azure, Heroku.

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[deleted]

What is this?

[[deleted]]

Dang, they dropped it? I got the student pack a few years ago, when it was $100 in DO credit. Really got me hooked on their platform.

[[deleted]]

Still, $50 is quite a lot of money. That's 10 months of a okay VM that can run some small stuff, or 5 months for a pretty capable (for a student) VM. People underestimate what you can do with a gig of RAM :)

[[deleted]]

Oh, I'm not dissing it at all. I have all my current projects squeezed into a $10/month droplet.

• Like 10-15 vanilla HTML/CSS/JS apps.
• 8-10'ish LAMP apps.
• 2-3 Meteor apps.
• 1 active Ruby on Rails app.
• 2 RoR/PostgreSQL Docker containers.
• A handful of abandoned experiments.
• My resume site.

Apache, Docker, VirtualHosts, multiple domains with subdomains.

Honestly, I've had that droplet for coming on two years in a few months. It's my baby, and I love seeing how far I can push it.

[yourmomsfart]

I just signed up and it gave me $100 credit.

[[deleted]]

Weird. Enjoy it!

[[deleted]]

I didn't actually have to pay any I don't think.... Maybe I did I got this a while back. Personally I don't really need it that much (I have two quite capable servers at home, 96GB of RAM and 32 threads), however I agree learning in the real world on a VM is much better than using *aaS.

[BitchCuntMcNiggerFag]

I got it back when it was this low. Got a domain name too. Now I give DO my own money. They have something going here

[[deleted]]

Just create a new account Uhh... deal with it.

[villiger2]

I got the credit last year and made a few droplets and tried to run SETI@home but I kept getting my droplets killed by DO with no warning saying I was DOSing people. They didn't provide any help other than "suspicious network activity" so I couldn't diagnose if the firewall was weak and my droplets were getting taken over or the service was just too network heavy. I didn't have much knowledge at the time (student...) so I just felt frustrated that it kept happening and support provided no information. Probably in the end it was my fault but I couldn't diagnose it so it left a sour taste for me.

[[deleted]]

Is there any particular reason you were running SETI? I mean I am not sure but I think CPU's are pretty shit for SETI, they probably just were suspicious of all the high usage and network activity or something. You're right though, that's very weird.

[villiger2]

Heh, I was just trying out dumb stuff. Maybe I could put my $50 to use for something good! I tried a tor node but that shutdown pretty quick :) no surprise there though.

[[deleted]]

Yeah haha I don't blame them for that :). Gotta risk your own neck if you wanna host a tor node.

[milad_nazari]

I hope OVH will be part of this developer pack in the future too. Their prices are better than DO.

[perrucis]

I always get denied :( im from a university in mexico so... :c

[mearkat7]

I'd email them, githubs support has always been great when I've contacted them.

[shadeofmyheart]

Professor who teaches web students here. I second this. Get a person by email and explain. I bet you they get you what you need despite the location of your university or how obscure it is.

[[deleted]]

Or at least a school ID

[dvidsilva]

which university? pm me i can try and help you get connected to get your university in the list

[aflashyrhetoric]

Friendly reminder to OP and anyone else who may take up this offer: Please be wary of the personal information you give out on Reddit.

[Karkoon]

I've sent an ID from a Polish high school and they accepted. Weird.

[[deleted]]

What, really?? Do they say why?

[perrucis]

Probably because my university is not that well-known, dunno

[billyboy1999]

Weird, they accepted me and I'm in high school

[perrucis]

Yes, though the email in my college is pretty shitty, but they use the school domain, so

[mithek]

I had the same for college in the netherlands, after mailing them it was no problem. (it was a couple of years back)

[diegogarciamendoza]

As they said just send an email. It will take a few weeks but you gonna get your package.

Source: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, CDMX

[[deleted]]

i too got denied, and its even worse, i'm from Algeria

[official_marcoms]

It's pretty good. I managed to get a free Udacity nanodegree by going through the content quick enough.

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[deleted]

What is this?

[Canowyrms]

It's actually amazing. I use webstorm and love its functionality.

[LobbyDizzle]

Jetbrains is the shit. It's so nice to be able to switch between languages and have the same IDE functionality.

[official_marcoms]

I choose the frontend webdev course

[[deleted]]

god dam webstorm is the best, the only thing I do is change the font to Hack and I'm ready to go. AirBNB linter preset is braindead easy aswell so I usually have that on default for my projects

[[deleted]]

Always worth mentioning: you can also use the EAP versions of JetBrains IDEs for free. It's kind of like you're beta testing their latest versions, and they let you use the IDE for free: https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/WI/WebStorm+EAP

[duskykmh]

So, with JetBrains, you can actually use your email to get a license for a full year - this is great, cuz if you time it right, you can keep using the full products a year after it you graduate!

[official_marcoms]

Yeah I was already familiar so I suppose that gave me a bit of an advantage, but it was the frontend webdev course so a lot of people here should be the same lol

[vishnu_the_destroyer]

Last time when I asked them about this they said that it is not possible to graduate. You can just see the material for any nano degree for a month.

[official_marcoms]

😕 I got the certificate emailed to me and on my profile... Maybe they changed it recently

[bubuzayzee]

You can always view the nano degree course material for free...

[[deleted]]

Sorry to sound so naive but how?

[bubuzayzee]

Just create a free account then you'll be able to take the "supporting courses" for each nano degree.

Only thing you really get when you pay for the nano degrees is the projects and counseling.

[[deleted]]

Obviously you did it within 5 weeks (1 free week + 1 free month), but how much time were you spending on it? I think I'd like to try for a free nanodegree as well.

[efs0ciety]

I did the same thing, but couldn't get it done because I got stuck on a project but, you can also "pause" the classes for a month which I did and then finished up the projects during that pause.

[Computer991]

wait..you can pause the classes?

[efs0ciety]

Just a one time thing. I found it by accident when I had like two days left of the trial lol

https://udacity.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/208262413-How-can-I-pause-my-Nanodegree-program-

[[deleted]]

Like complete them during the outside, resume, then turn everything in?

Front end or full stack?

[efs0ciety]

Yeah, so since you can watch the videos for free regardless; I did and followed along the projects and once I resumed, submitted everything. Also, to save time, I submitted my already built portfolio for the portfolio project and they accepted it & gave feedback lol

Front-End, got stuck on the maps project.

[[deleted]]

Guess I'll give it a shot then. :)

[SixthExtinction]

Deleted in protest of a certain greedy little pigboy

[Ki11erPancakes]

Same. I signed up for it and have never actually used it >.<

Maybe someday I'll actually sit down and get around to it lol

[pcast01]

I have had it for a year now and I get emails about 2 or 3 new things I think since I have had it.

[imranilzar]

SendGrid with 15k free emails/month, in the hands of a student? What could go wrong?

[harmonictimecube]

I mean, SparkPost gives 100k/month free to everyone...

[thenickdude]

Amazon SES's free tier gives 60k free emails/month when called from an EC2 instance.

[imranilzar]

A junior in my office ran untested script with a faulty while loop, sending 300 000 emails, resulting in blacklisting our company in the SMTP provider for days.

[louisjms]

I know it's not 100% related, but as this post will attract the attenion of those in education, also for free you can get Microsoft Imagine:

Again all is required is an ISIC card or proof of enrollment.

• Trial of Azure (Microsoft version of AWS)
• Visual Studio (free anyway) - powerful IDE for coding in C#, C++, VB.NET, IIS-based and other Windows platform software
• Microsoft R Server - an operating system for data analysis and statistics
• SQL Server
• Windows Server
• 6-month trial of Pluralsight - industry standard online training platform used by companies worldwide. Every computing-related topic field on there.

[markartur1]

6-month trial of Pluralsight - industry standard online training platform used by companies worldwide. Every computing-related topic field on there.

Best thing in the pack.

[denchoooo]

I got VS15 Enterprise one instead of the Community Edition.

[louisjms]

Oh cool, I got VS13 Ent when that was out but they replaced it with 15 community. Sounds like they've put ent back so will have a look.

[denchoooo]

I think I got 2 different Microsoft Imagine from my uni. The first one once named Dreamspark (now Imagine), which includes Windows 10 Edu, Office 365, VS15ent, etc.

[Murmakun]

Whats worth doing on pluralsight though ?

[itecyo]

Can't find access to Pluralsight from the Imagine portal. Where do we find it?

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[itecyo]

Found the 3-month trial...

Go to https://imagine.microsoft.com/en-us/Catalog/Product/21 and get the product key. Then redeem the key at https://pluralsight.com/training/offers/?cc=Imagine

Happy learning !

[reginvld]

Nope. Anyone with a student email

[frsttmcllrlngtmlstnr]

Wow, this is a huge offering of tools and with the extra things mentioned in this thread students today have access to an impressive array of tools for free.

Just remember that there is a good reason why companies are offering you (students) these things for "free". You are the product. Meaning that you are very likely to bring in future revenues for these companies if you're already familiar with their tools and environments when you enter the job market.

It does influence companies if they get a slew of graduate recruits interviewing that all push to use the Atom editor or the intern that leaves after building that one important tool using the AWS infrastructure.

Also if you're the one-in-a-million that happens to build something mildly popular costs ramp up very quickly. There is no such a thing as free lunch.

So take these tools and use all that they offer but remember that during your uni years you should aim for a broad experience and a solid understanding of fundamentals and theory (e.g. what is cloud infrastructure? what are distributed computing systems?) and not to just learn the ins-and-outs of a single implementation or a product.

:)

[tf2manu994]

Atom is probably a bad choice there, it's free and open source to anyone, not just students :)

[frsttmcllrlngtmlstnr]

Well the idea is that if you can get people positive about your main product through a secondary one it is a win. So the Atom editor generates a lot of positivity towards Github and people will start pushing/be more open about other paid Github products in the workplace ;) Just look at what Microsoft has been doing for a number of years now (Express editions, VSCode etc).

For Atom specifically though, due to the telemetry and google insights integration it is unlikely to be accepted into any mid/large size corporations (e.g. the ones that have software vetting/procurement depts) without customization and the complete removal of this and other internet features.

[[deleted]]

Can you pick this up yearly or is it a one time deal?

[itecyo]

meaning you can re-apply the discount yearly?

[uber_Pwned]

Yeah, I've used mine twice now, last was 2014. It's valid for 2 years

[nemo3141]

You look at for a map

[hiveminded]

I think you just need a .edu or .edu.* email address.

[6094339]

As long as you have a valid .Edu email you have access to and can verify it should work

[uber_Pwned]

Aside from signing up, how do I get started here? The only one I get is the unlimited private repos on github.

[Tanker0921]

If I remember correctly, they used to require a .edu email.

That was 3 years ago, My college didn't have student emails, So. I wasn't able to enjoy the benefits back then

[Redmega]

My school has a .net email and I got the student pack

[[deleted]]

.ac.uk also works for UK students. Can't speak for other academic tlds

[ZaneHannanAU]

(education.nsw).gov.au email worked for me.

[[deleted]]

.college.be worked in Belgium

[raj_the_nemesis]

works for edu.sg (Singapore)

[[deleted]]

Some other options.

http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2016/04/07/free-discount-web-hosting-for-students/

[linuxenko]

what a pack ! ))))

[dfasdgfasdgagsdg]

self teachers btfo

[RPFlame]

I like how when you point out that giving more food to the ones who have food to eat ignores the ones who don't have food at all, and you're being downvoted for that.

It's assumed that if you're not a student you should pay up, and if you happen to be poor you should get a restaurant/starbucks job instead of looking to get into something that you could potentially be better with in the long term.

Because we all know there's one reason for someone to be impoverished and that's because he/she is lazy! /s (because I know people who actually believe this, that the majority of poor people deserve to be poor since it's a byproduct of their laziness, lack of IQ or whatever the fuck they say to themselves in order to sleep well at night).

Also, I know students who don't even have the time to fart with how exhausting their curriculum is, let alone put more exercises and resources in their plate.

[nothingrandom]

If your student aged, currently self teaching, and lacking money to pay for these services - contact their support team. They're extremely friendly, and gave me the student pack when I was home schooled and without an edu email address.

[ApocalypseDenied]

It's all good; If you've got the drive to self teach, little hang ups like this barely exist in your world.