Ultimate Guide to GitHub’s Student Developer Pack
List of benefits that you can find in the Github’s Student Developer Pack
Are you a student who is aiming to become a developer? Are you tired of looking for tools with cost-prohibitive prices? Then, this post is for you!
GitHub is a company well-known by Software Engineers as a collaborative software development platform that developers use daily. As part of its GitHub University Program, students can get some of the best enterprise tools for free or get different discounts! In this guide, I will show you how to apply for it, apart from listing the apps that I think are the best from this pack, either to use them at the university or give them a try for personal use as they’ll open a lot of work opportunities.
How can I apply for the GitHub Student Pack?
To apply for the Github Student Pack, you must:
- Be currently enrolled in a degree or diploma-granting courses such as a high school, secondary school, college, university, homeschool, or similar educational institution.
- Have a verifiable school-issued email address or upload documents that prove your current student status. You don’t even need a “.edu” account for this requirement!
- Have a GitHub user account. You can create one at the following link.
- Be at least 13 years old.
If you meet these requirements, you only need to apply for it at the following link:
What benefits do they offer?
GitHub Pro
We already talked about GitHub, and you’ll 100% use it at some point if you are a developer. As a benefit, you can get free GitHub Pro while a student.
They also offer GitHub Pages, which gives us one website per GitHub account and organization; and unlimited project sites for you.
MongoDB Free Credits & Certifications
MongoDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database used for high-volume data storage, and it’s probably one of the most used ones in the industry. I totally recommend it; indeed, it’s the one I usually work with. With the Github Student’s Pack, you can get $50 in MongoDB Atlas Credits to launch your own Database, plus access to MongoDB Compass and MongoDB University, including free certification valued at $150. Is there any better way to show your future employer that you master this technology?
Stripe $1000 in transaction fees
When you start your business, selling is one of the most critical parts. With a $95 billion valuation and one of the most impressive applications on the internet, Stripe is a suite of APIs powering online payment processing and commerce solutions. Thanks to this pack, you have waived transaction fees on the first $1000 in revenue processed.
Heroku $13 USD per month for 12 months
Heroku recently announced that the free plans would finish in November 2022. But don’t worry about it; you can get $13 per month in Heroku if you are a student and deploy at least one application for free. If you are a developer and you don’t want to complicate while deploying your applications, Heroku is for you. Just connect to your GitHub account, and deploy the changes in your branches automatically!
Azure $100 in Azure Credit
The Azure cloud platform is more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life. You can write code, deploy services, host websites… everything you have in mind! Personally, I prefer AWS, you can even check the course about this technology that I created in my Medium account, but you can get free access to 25+ Microsoft Azure cloud services plus $100 in Azure credit to see if you like it, as they are similar!
DigitalOcean $100 in Platform Credit
DigitalOcean is another solution like Azure or AWS, but simpler than this one. Suppose you don’t want to complicate deploying your applications or get overwhelmed by the vast amount of services that other services provide us. In that case, DigitalOcean has to be your choice, especially with $100 in platform credit for new users!
Typeform Free Professional Plan
Typeform allows you to create impressive interactive forms and get more responses. It might seem simple, but it’s one of the most powerful applications I know. Some businesses are even based on it! Check it by yourself with the free professional plan for one year included in the pack!
Jetbrains Free Subscription
JetBrains is an essential tool for building software. It includes IntelliJ IDEA, the leading JAVA IDE; PyCharm, the Professional Python IDE; WebStorm, the smartest JavaScript IDE…, and more! You can get a free subscription for students, to be renewed annually.
Bootstrap Studio for Free
Bootstrap Studio is a powerful desktop app built on top of the Bootstrap framework for designing and prototyping websites with many built-in components, which you can drag and drop to assemble responsive web pages. You get a free license for Bootstrap Studio while a student with the GitHub Pack.
Datacamp 3-month subscription
If you want to learn more about Data, Datacamp is your platform! You can grow your data skills with video tutorials, coding challenges, and real-life projects with this free 3-month individual subscription for students.
Educative 6-month subscription
Another tool to learn about web development. With Educative, you can level up your coding skills using interactive in-browser environments to simulate a real working experience. Get six free months of 60+ courses covering in-demand topics like Web Development, Python, Java, and Machine Learning.
Interview Cake 3-weeks subscription
After finishing university, is time to practice for the interviews. Interview Cake makes coding interviews a piece of cake with practice questions, data structures, algorithms, cheat sheets, and more! You can access the full coding interview prep course for three weeks, so I recommend you use it when preparing for the interviews, as you don’t have a lot of time.
FrontendMasters 6-months free access
A website where you can learn especially about Frontend. You can advance your skills with in-depth, modern JavaScript and frontend engineering courses with this free 6-months access to all classes and workshops.
Datadog Pro Account for two years
Datadog is a monitoring and analytics tool for information technology (IT) and DevOps teams that you can use to determine performance metrics. It’s a tool used at an enterprise level, where you have to manage all the infrastructure for a company quickly, as you can see all the metrics from all your servers at a glance. With the GitHub Student Pack, you can get the Datadog Pro Account for free, including ten servers, for two years.
Name.com Free Domain for one year
Do you have a brilliant idea you want to register? Do you want to create your personal website? Register the domain with Name.com! This promotion offers one free year of domain registration and one free year of Advanced Security (SSL, privacy protection, and more)!
Namecheap is also included in the GitHub Student Pack in case you want to look for alternatives.
Mailgun
Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that enable you to send, receive, and track email effortlessly. With this pack, you get 20,000 free emails and 100 free email validations each month for up to 12 months.
More free apps
In this list, I have focused on the applications that I consider most important at a general user level, but depending on your role or what you want to do, others may be more relevant to you. Some examples of other applications that we can find are GitLens, Iconscout, Testmail, Atom, Twilio, Arduino Education, or you can even apply to the Github Campus Experts program! I encourage you to investigate all of them because the truth is that it is one of the best packs that exist at the level of education!
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