How can I apply to other service after successfully apply to Github Micro Plan?
GitHub Student Developer Pack
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Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#42Wow, thanks! As a student who runs his own SaaS, this is incredibly valuable! I was able to immediately add the $1000 credit to my Stripe account, which I already use to process all my payments. Now I'm just looking for ways to best utilize the rest of the services. Big thanks to GitHub and all involved companies for creating a wonderful bundle for students.
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#43> PositiveSSL from Namecheap (for $9)
I have one of these, they work great.
The one and only problem they have is they require 2 or 3 intermediary CA certs that need to be "bundled" into a file.
After buying one, and finding the Comodo provided instructions lacking the needed info, I put together a howto for both Windows and Linux (for Apache) - http://www.devside.net/wamp-server/installing-comodo-positiv...
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#44Super important addition:
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#45Awesome 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…
I think that's a filter more than anything else. You know they'd get hammered otherwise. Even Coursera or the like wouldn't be a good filter, since anyone can sign up. Perhaps they could have a filter based on completed courses through the various online options (Coursera, Code School, Treehouse, etc)
> Perhaps they could have a filter based on completed courses through the various online options (Coursera, Code School, Treehouse, etc)
Couldn't agree more!!
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#46So 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?
Literally anything you could want to put on a server...? 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.
I think calling it a 'trial' is actually a disservice. Most of these are good for the entire time you're a student or two years. Most trials are limited to 30, 60, or maybe 90 days if you're lucky.
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#47I think this is an expansion of a previous project they had. I already have a coupon from May 2013, when only the GitHub Micro plan was included.
This is an amazing opportunity and I'm notifying all my college friends.
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#48This 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…
The exploration of modern programming is a big factor keeping people out. You don't get a computer with BASIC installed anymore, or magazines that teach you programming from start to finish with code samples included.
To figure out desktop programming, you have to download a compiler and hope there is a good tutorial on some random blog which most likely gave up after part two of a five part series. To figure out web programming you need a server and a domain name and wait what language are you using but then again what framework are you using and for the love of god how do I deploy I don't even know where Ubuntu keeps the /www folder and all of the tutorials I find expect me to know what an Angular is when I just learned what a Javascript is and I worked with Codecademy so I know Javascript but not how to use it to make a web page and I know Python but I still need to know HTML, CSS, and Javascript so I give up.
What's new on Netflix?
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#49Awesome 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…
> 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.
This points out sort of the paradox we have here...it's argued that you should just "learn to code," but then they're requiring here that in order to do this you need to be part of some larger engine of learning that my or may not have anything to do with what you're trying to learn in the first place. So which is it?
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
BitBucket is lacking the overall ecosystem.
What parts of the overall ecosystem do you consider a necessity for private repos?
I like starting a school-related project as a private Github repo, then as time or permission allows for to open it up as a public repo. I've open-sourced a few things this way, whereas the couple Bitbucket repos have been left to languish since I don't have a limit on private repos or the ecosystem to share it with.