We’re tech enthusiasts, we love hands on experiences, we’re passionate about exploring new tools & building real world projects, but many or most of us may not be in a condition to buy those expensive tools. Yes, being a student, we have rare sources of earning & therefore we cannot afford to pay for such tools.
Not to worry now, GitHub & their partners have come up with a solution to this. They are giving away some awesome tools to students for free of cost.
For those who aren’t aware of GitHub, it has already helped more than 100,000 students on their developing problems.
List of tools included in the free Student Developer Pack:
- Atom — atom.io
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
Open Source by GitHub, free for everyone - Bitnami — bitnami.com
Install cloud applications in a single click
Business 3 plan (normally $49/month) for one year - Crowdflower — crowdflower.com
Crowdsourcing and data enrichment platform
Access to the Crowdflower platform (normally $2,500/month) and $50 in worker credit - DigitalOcean — digitalocean.com
Simple cloud hosting, built for developers
$100 in platform credit - DNSimple — dnsimple.com
Simple DNS management with one-click services and a robust API
Bronze hosted DNS plan (normally $3/month) for two years - GitHub — github.com
Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management
Micro account (normally $7/month) with five private repositories while you’re a student - HackHands — hackhands.com
Live programming help available 24/7
$25 in platform credit - Namecheap — namecheap.com
Domain name registration and SSL certificates
One year free domain name registration on the .me TLD (normally 8.99/year) and one year free SSL certificate (normally $9/year) - Orchestrate — orchestrate.io
Database API that includes search, time-series events, geolocation and graph queries
Developer account (normally $49/month) while you’re a student - Screenhero — screenhero.com
Screen sharing for collaboration in teams
Individual account (normally $9.99/month) while you’re a student - SendGrid — sendgrid.com
Email infrastructure as a service
Student plan (normally $4.95/month) for one year - Stripe — stripe.com
Web and mobile payments, built for developers
Waived transaction fees on first $1,000 in revenue processed - Travis CI — travis-ci.com
Continuous integration platform for open source and private projects
Private builds (normally $69/month) while you’re a student - Unreal Engine — unrealengine.com
A complete suite of game development tools made by game developers, for game developers
Unreal Engine (normally $19/month) while you’re a student
How to get this pack?
To get an access to this pack, you need to be a student aged 13+ and enrolled in degree or diploma granting course of study.
You’ll be needing the following things to register:
- School/College-issued email address
- Valid student identification card
- Other official proof of enrollment (enrollment letter, transcript, etc)
Get your GitHub Student Developer Pack here
Be quick, don’t delay or you might just lose this awesome freebie 🙂