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Um... better than backpacks, I'd say.
i guess that is what differentiates a student from a working adult.
A 100 dollars in credit in digital ocean is better than a backpack considering most backpacks cost >$100
GitHub Student Developer Pack
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Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
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Hm, that's nice of them, although this page states you aren't allowed to do that: "Keep in mind that we only allow one promo code per account, so if you’ve redeemed one in the past you may not add another. To see your promo code history please visit your billing page." https://www.digitalocean.com/help/pricing-and-billing/
We're making an exception to our existing policy for those who wish to participate in this program.
The input box doesn't come up for me, all I get is "The promo DIVEIN10 for $10.00 was applied to your account." which if I remember correctly, was when DO did codes over Twitter quite a while ago :p
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#193My 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.
Like the parent comment I recently got my two-year expiration notice, but I've now graduated. (Although my edu email still works...) At the start of 2010 I did the BitBucket deal and did all my school stuff exclusively with them, until finally GitHub offered their version. (I like GitHub's interface better. Even after they did a big overhaul to a design I liked less.) Unlike GitHub though my BitBucket account is still Unlimited, which is awesome. Consequentially I like Atlassian as a company much more. :)
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#194Many school/colleges outside NA/Europe (eg: even topmost science/engineering colleges in India) don't necessarily provide an institutional .edu email ID but you can still verify using college/library ID cards and say semester exams marksheet or such. So is this pack available for such students? Nevertheless kudos for an awesome bundle!
In the UK it requests a .ac.uk email address instead of .edu which is standard for most/all UK university domains.
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#195While 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.
Pragmatically, if the value of time saved, usefulness is higher the price of the product I would still buy it.
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#196"to the best developer tools" - a bit far-fetched for very many of those.
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're making an exception to our existing policy for those who wish to participate in this program.
The input box doesn't come up for me, all I get is "The promo DIVEIN10 for $10.00 was applied to your account." which if I remember correctly, was when DO did codes over Twitter quite a while ago :p
Go to cloud.digitalocean.com/support and create a new ticket, giving them your promo code and asking nicely, and they'll put it through promptly in my experience
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#198Many school/colleges outside NA/Europe (eg: even topmost science/engineering colleges in India) don't necessarily provide an institutional .edu email ID but you can still verify using college/library ID cards and say semester exams marksheet or such. So is this pack available for such students? Nevertheless kudos for an awesome bundle!
I thought .edu was a US-thing.
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#199This is going to be helpful to many students, but... But the constraints imposed by not being able to pay for third-party services during my years as a student have been the main motivator behind tinkering with setting up my own services and finding (FLOSS) alternative solutions to the well-known applications the grown ups were using. I think one has to "suffer" through all the required stages in order to grok all th…
It's not like it's preventing people from tinkering with FOSS or anything..
Re: GitHub Student Developer Pack
#200This really makes something I've been thinking about very clear. 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 i…
> It's deploying, testing, environment issues, metrics, databases, dns, etc. Basically it is a lot more complex than "learn to code".
You're mixing the "everybody can code" idea with "everyone should become a professional software engineer". The former is a great idea, the latter not so much.
"Everybody can code" is about basic computer literacy. Too many people do boring and repetitive jobs on their computers. Basic understanding of programming should help people write that Excel macro that saves them a few hours of manual labor. Or make more informed decisions when being a customer purchasing software engineering services. To understand what a computer program or programmer can and, especially, can not do.
If I'm asked "should I learn to code", the answer usually is "if your job includes repetitive tasks using a computer, the answer is yes".