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Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

#11

My 2 year discount on Micro just expired. I'm still in school for another year, so I'm curious if there are any limitations to people that previously received free Micro as a student for 2 years, but had that initial 2 years run out. Is this new offer free Micro for the entirety of academic career or the same 2 year offer from before? Either way, I hope I can get all the other awesome stuff (especially the CrowdFlowe…

You can reapply and you will get all the other stuff.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

#12

My 2 year discount on Micro just expired. I'm still in school for another year, so I'm curious if there are any limitations to people that previously received free Micro as a student for 2 years, but had that initial 2 years run out. Is this new offer free Micro for the entirety of academic career or the same 2 year offer from before? Either way, I hope I can get all the other awesome stuff (especially the CrowdFlowe…

The BitBucket student discount and offer is much greater than the Micro discount (unlimited private repositories and collaborators). It would be a better idea to use BitBucket for private stuff instead and keep the public facing stuff in GitHub. Best of both worlds.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

#14
This is simply great. I can see this definitely helping expand the base of students who take on computer science or technology related fields of study. With these fields growing already, adding a package like this simply allows students to learn faster and use some of the best tools the industry offers.

While there are alternatives (Atom -> Sublime or Notepad++) for many of these services, the bundling of this all together should present students a logical next step instead of hunting around for a service right away.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

#15
This looks pretty awesome. I know that UE4 was already free for academic use, but previously you had to have a faculty member do the requesting of keys (I had to have my advisor get me one). It seems like this lets students get it more easily on their own.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

#17

My 2 year discount on Micro just expired. I'm still in school for another year, so I'm curious if there are any limitations to people that previously received free Micro as a student for 2 years, but had that initial 2 years run out. Is this new offer free Micro for the entirety of academic career or the same 2 year offer from before? Either way, I hope I can get all the other awesome stuff (especially the CrowdFlowe…

The BitBucket student discount and offer is much greater than the Micro discount (unlimited private repositories and collaborators). It would be a better idea to use BitBucket for private stuff instead and keep the public facing stuff in GitHub. Best of both worlds.

BitBucket is lacking the overall ecosystem.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

#19
This was really weird. TheVerge actually spoiled the launch of this last night.

I was searching around and Google cached a Verge news story about this thing. However, the story was taken down and education.github.com/pack was a blank page.

Happy to see that they launched it. Looks great!

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

#20
Nice, 13+ - I assume high school student can apply?

Like to get my daughter and few of her buddies to sign up for this to do a few web / mobile projects.

Not limited to just .edu email address, right? Her high school doesn't have that.

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