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Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by johndbritton » Thu, May 23, 2013, 10:53 PM UTC

codereflection wrote: post #29

Yet another reason to love Github. I'm running out of love guys, seriously, knock off all this "do cool stuff" BS. ;) Does this also apply to high school students? My oldest attends a STEM high school here in Seattle, and this would be excellent for them.

> High school students are eligible as well.

> Since most high schools don't issue email addresses, the turnaround for approval can be longer.

We're also huge fans of FIRST and love to support those groups. http://octodex.github.com/FIRSTocat/

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by matiasb » Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:02 PM UTC

johndbritton wrote: post #14

I work at GitHub on all things related to education. I got a note that this was on HN, so I thought I'd drop by and offer to answer questions and provide some additional details. Details on the discount: * We're happy to provide students with GitHub Micro (5 private repositories) accounts for free. So long as you're a student, you're eligible. You can use the private repositories for anything you want. * We offer org…

sweet!

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by Kaivo » Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:02 PM UTC

I used that during my last semester and it was awesome. I set it so that my README.md would have my schedules, books to read, homework assignment, etc. I'd update it as the term would go on. I was able to keep track of all my projects at a single place even though they were unrelated, and I also took notes during the lectures. With how they display .md files, it's really easy and quick to take notes and still have something decent to read afterward.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by QuantumGuy » Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:07 PM UTC

Kaivo wrote: post #33

I used that during my last semester and it was awesome. I set it so that my README.md would have my schedules, books to read, homework assignment, etc. I'd update it as the term would go on. I was able to keep track of all my projects at a single place even though they were unrelated, and I also took notes during the lectures. With how they display .md files, it's really easy and quick to take notes and still have so…

Sounds very useful, mind if I take a look?

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by QuantumGuy » Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:09 PM UTC

johndbritton wrote: post #14

I work at GitHub on all things related to education. I got a note that this was on HN, so I thought I'd drop by and offer to answer questions and provide some additional details. Details on the discount: * We're happy to provide students with GitHub Micro (5 private repositories) accounts for free. So long as you're a student, you're eligible. You can use the private repositories for anything you want. * We offer org…

If you're start using a private repo for education now but go to grad school do those repos remain free?

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by BruceIV » Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:09 PM UTC

Kaivo wrote: post #33

I used that during my last semester and it was awesome. I set it so that my README.md would have my schedules, books to read, homework assignment, etc. I'd update it as the term would go on. I was able to keep track of all my projects at a single place even though they were unrelated, and I also took notes during the lectures. With how they display .md files, it's really easy and quick to take notes and still have so…

Github as private wiki, interesting.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by Kaivo » Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:13 PM UTC

QuantumGuy wrote: post #34

Kaivo wrote: post #33

I used that during my last semester and it was awesome. I set it so that my README.md would have my schedules, books to read, homework assignment, etc. I'd update it as the term would go on. I was able to keep track of all my projects at a single place even though they were unrelated, and I also took notes during the lectures. With how they display .md files, it's really easy and quick to take notes and still have so…

Sounds very useful, mind if I take a look?

I removed them from Github to leave place for the next semester, since we are limited in private repos and I didn't made them public since they also have answers to some homework.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by Kaivo » Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:16 PM UTC

BruceIV wrote: post #36

Kaivo wrote: post #33

I used that during my last semester and it was awesome. I set it so that my README.md would have my schedules, books to read, homework assignment, etc. I'd update it as the term would go on. I was able to keep track of all my projects at a single place even though they were unrelated, and I also took notes during the lectures. With how they display .md files, it's really easy and quick to take notes and still have so…

Github as private wiki, interesting.

Not only wiki since I also had a lot of source code throughout this. Also, since they added the feature to create files from Github, I used that a lot when I had downtime at my job so that I could work on school from Github. It could also be used in group projects I believe (unless we can't share those but I didn't notice if it's the case).

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by johndbritton » Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:17 PM UTC

QuantumGuy wrote: post #35

johndbritton wrote: post #14

I work at GitHub on all things related to education. I got a note that this was on HN, so I thought I'd drop by and offer to answer questions and provide some additional details. Details on the discount: * We're happy to provide students with GitHub Micro (5 private repositories) accounts for free. So long as you're a student, you're eligible. You can use the private repositories for anything you want. * We offer org…

If you're start using a private repo for education now but go to grad school do those repos remain free?

So long as you're a student, you qualify. After you graduate you get to keep them until the two years expires.

Re: Free private Github repos for students and edu people

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Post by BruceIV » Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:19 PM UTC

I'm a student, so I get to take advantage of this, but if you aren't, a bare git repo in a Dropbox folder makes an okay poor-man's private repo. You need to be careful to let Dropbox sync before you shut down your computer, and, though collaboration is possible with shared folders, you're likely in for a world pain from syncronization issues.