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Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by cdcarter »

xbryanx wrote: post #90

This is great. On an unrelated note, I wanted to give GitHub a big high-five for their non-profit organizational discounts. Tech companies that provide non-profit discounts really help non-profits where technology expenses are often under-appreciated and underfunded.

Salesforce has done a VERY good job of both providing free/discounted licenses to non-profits and also pressuring SF Ecosystem/App vendors to providing similar free/discounted licenses. You can get started pretty quickly with a full on Salesforce install and quite a few useful apps completely free if you have under 10 users.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by neito »

gprasanth wrote: post #44

Super important addition: http://jetbrains.com/student/

I dunno if it's just me, and I dunno how repersentative it is of their other products, but PyCharm always struck me as a bit overcomplicated. It's got little weirdnesses that make it less-than-great if you're opening, say, multiple different programs (like a student might) as opposed to one over-arching project.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by diyorgasms »

wmt wrote: post #98

While the value here is nice, I maybe would not suggest investing too much of your time on learning proprietary temporarily free developer tools. There are great open source tools for many developer tasks that are not just good options, but can even be industry standards.

I agree that using free (libre) tools is preferable, but a lot of this facilitates that. For instance, you can deploy a GNU/Linux image using the DigitalOcean credit and gain experience deploying on a LAMP/LEMP stack and doing things like creating iptables rules and things like that, which is good real-world experience that is in no way temporary or platform dependent.

Git itself (as I'm sure you know) is a free tool, and learning git is a worthwhile skill no matter where you are using it. Hell, I know people who use git for collaborative document management.

And the SSL stuff and domains offered through namecheap are going to be helpful to anyone who wants to go into web development. Knowing how to set up a domain, with proper DNS records and SSL configurations, is a pretty basic task for people who do web stuff. And, again, these things are platform agnostic. I think there is a lot of value offered here, and not all of it serves the purpose of furthering vendor lock-in.

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Post by PublicEnemy111 »

Orchestrate looks really interesting. I'm currently building my senior project and might consider switching from my own hosted database. Anyone care to share experiences? I've built an app with parse and I personally wasn't a fan. Its great for small apps, but once you start scaling the pricing becomes an issue. I'm also wondering how big the performance hit is for a remote database

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by timv »

gprasanth wrote: post #44

Super important addition: http://jetbrains.com/student/

Just be aware that the license terms for JetBrains' student program are pretty strict.

  (a) Licensee may: ...
   (ii) use Software for non-commercial, educational purposes only, including conducting academic research or providing educational services

  (b) Licensee may not: ...
   (iii) use Software for any commercial purpose.
http://www.jetbrains.com/student/license.html

All of which is fair (it's free, and they don't owe you anything), but restrictive. Technically you can't even use if for your personal side projects unless they can be classified as "academic research"

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by crazysim »

Igglyboo wrote: post #142
Kudos wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BitBucket is lacking the overall ecosystem.

Honest question, what do you need other than a server to host your repo?

Time and expertise to manage that server. It's cool that there's a Golang server out there that's a one binary solution to this among other offerings but some expertise and time is still required.

I would rather a student learn how to use git and the communities and tools around it first if both of these were options.

Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack

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Post by robbles »

crazypyro wrote: post #4

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…

I renewed mine a few weeks ago after the 2 years expired. As long as you're still a student, just apply for renewal and they'll give it to you.

I also got the student pack right away, probably because of my student status.

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