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So let's say I'm a developer and I just don't know what to do with this, though. What could I build with these tools?
It's a nice bunch of free trials to commonly needed services for developers. Email delivery, payment processing, hosting, continuous integration, etc etc..
Your question doesn't really make sense. It's a sandbox; we can't tell you what kind of castle to build.
It worked with my european (Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University) student mail. It's pretty simple and straightforward and will be so useful.
Awesome 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 identif…
Without that, how would they validate who is a student vs not? I know nothing of Go but want to learn. Am I not a 'student'?
I understand what you are saying, but without being an actual verifiable student they would be giving this away to the world
Further, with all of the thousands of dollars saved by not being a traditional student, surely there is some money for these services out of pocket (not all of which are 100% required to learn)
Awesome 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 identif…
Awesome 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 identif…
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 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 o…
I often think about the "everyone can code" movement. It's not something I particularly believe in, but exposing as many people as possible is a great thing.
However, the bit I get stuck on is programming is more than just typing characters in the correct sequence. It's deploying, testing, environment issues, metrics, databases, dns, etc. Basically it is a lot more complex than "learn to code".
This smorgasbord of services really drives that point home and I can't imagine how overwhelmed I'd be if I saw this back when I was a student.
EDIT: I'd like to make clear that I think this is absolutely awesome and no student or person otherwise should be intimidated or overwhelmed, let your curiosity wander!
Awesome 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 identif…
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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.