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Github Student Developer Pack includes Visual Studio and Dreamspark
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Re: Github Student Developer Pack includes Visual Studio and Dreamspark
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't mind? Are you so detached from reality? For most CS students in the world, 'don't mind' is not an option, they simply don't have that money.
My universe isn't penniless college students, it's businesses with the funds to shell out for good tools.
This post is about the GitHub student developer pack.
Re: Github Student Developer Pack includes Visual Studio and Dreamspark
#23"real world tools can be cost prohibitive"?! It really depend on how poorly you choose which real world you want to live in.
This bundle is much more than just OSes and Editors, but includes a lot of coding services which can be a distraction to maintain while also handling one's educational requirements. Yes, you can set up TravisCI instances, an email server, a DNS server, etc, for free. At the same time, being able to have someone else worry about bugfixes and the like can be very useful if you've got a project that you just want to hack on without worrying about also being a sysadmin/devops person for your toolchain.
Re: Github Student Developer Pack includes Visual Studio and Dreamspark
#24"real world tools can be cost prohibitive"?! It really depend on how poorly you choose which real world you want to live in.
This bundle is much more than just OSes and Editors, but includes a lot of coding services which can be a distraction to maintain while also handling one's educational requirements. Yes, you can set up TravisCI instances, an email server, a DNS server, etc, for free. At the same time, being able to have someone else worry about bugfixes and the like can be very useful if you've got a project that you just want to hac…
When I was learning web development, it was such a PITA learning rails and dealing with all the ops stuff at the same time (so I could show friends my stuff, on a real domain and everything). I envy the kiddos that can just hit the "deploy to azure" button or whatever now. (This reads like an ad for microsoft but I promise I don't work there :)
Re: Github Student Developer Pack includes Visual Studio and Dreamspark
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
This bundle is much more than just OSes and Editors, but includes a lot of coding services which can be a distraction to maintain while also handling one's educational requirements. Yes, you can set up TravisCI instances, an email server, a DNS server, etc, for free. At the same time, being able to have someone else worry about bugfixes and the like can be very useful if you've got a project that you just want to hac…
When I was learning web development, it was such a PITA learning rails and dealing with all the ops stuff at the same time (so I could show friends my stuff, on a real domain and everything). I envy the kiddos that can just hit the "deploy to azure" button or whatever now. (This reads like an ad for microsoft but I promise I don't work there :)
Bingo. Too many colleges still use the ancient and terrible method of requiring one to copy to media between classes, instead of the much nicer, and simpler, git pushes and the like. Add the pain of the overhead associated with a lot of coding frameworks, and you get a lot of ideas that end up stillborn because deployment management is hard, and the free tools are terrible.
Re: Github Student Developer Pack includes Visual Studio and Dreamspark
#26"Microsoft acquires Github" - with the other recent announcements of .NET framework and Roslyn moving to Github, and now this, it may seem the day is not too far off for those headlines to become reality.
Why so many comments about this? Why would they even be interested in buying it, and why would GitHub sell it? Doesn't make much logistical sense.
Microsoft is actively trying to embrace open source.. where else would they go?
Re: Github Student Developer Pack includes Visual Studio and Dreamspark
#27Isn't the VS Community edition free now anyway?
Yes it is, Community[0] is actually the same as Professional just with a different license, the offer does also include DreamSpark[1] so you can get a bunch of other tools, which you could always get free as a student.
Looks like GitHub/Microsoft are doing some cross marketing as DreamSpark now includes the GitHub Student Developer Pack[2].
[0] http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community...
[1] https://www.dreamspark.com/Student/Software-Catalog.aspx
[2] https://www.dreamspark.com/Product/Product.aspx?productid=92