With the growing amount of free online courses, it's a shame there isn't a good way to share resources like this to people who want to self-educate just to learn and better themselves. Instead they must also be burdened with extra costs of enrolling in an institution.
GitHub Student Developer Pack
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#23This 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 to…
I personally disagree, it removes the exploration part of learning how to code, which I believe to be vital to educating good programmers.
I see all these services listed, and all I think is "they are hooking these guys to a service oriented approach", a "pay $25 and you don't have to worry about X". Thing is, what you learn while trialling technologies is invaluable and should not be replaced by a preselected list of SaaS, many of which I would tell any beginner to stay away from.
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#24Nice, 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.
I just applied as a HS student.
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#25Student pack? It's mostly trial offers bundled with a free text editor. This isn't a gift, its an advert
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#26With the growing amount of free online courses, it's a shame there isn't a good way to share resources like this to people who want to self-educate just to learn and better themselves. Instead they must also be burdened with extra costs of enrolling in an institution.
how dare teachers make a living too.
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#27I hadn’t heard about Hackhands before. It seems like a very useful service.
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#28It worked with my european (Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University) student mail. It's pretty simple and straightforward and will be so useful.
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#29Nice, 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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#30Awesome service guys. The following criticism is not for github, but for our culture as a whole. I cannot get myself to agree with how our culture has come to describe a 'student'. An example would be the following:
"If you're a student aged 13+ and enrolled in degree or diploma granting course of study, the GitHub Student Developer Pack is for you. All you need is a school-issued email address, valid student identification card, or other official proof of enrollment"
So I need to pay money to a big institution to be considered a student? Many 'students' would probably be in a better financial situation than a non-'student' who is trying to learn. Somehow 'education' has turned into a tool for passing on privilege.
I do agree this pack is not meant for everyone. And I also agree that these guys would find it hard to differentiate between a real learner and one who is not. But I'm amazed they didn't think about linking it with a coursera course or something. Anyways, I've spent 10 minutes thinking about this and they've probably spent 10 weeks. They've done more research, I might be missing something.