Long on a quest to teach aspiring engineers best practices, code repository GitHub on Tuesday released a set of 14 developer tools that gives students credits or free access to services, including payments platform Stripe, domain registrar Namecheap, and GitHub.
Though GitHub has offered educational discounts for years, it only formally launched its education site in February 2014, offering students and teachers free accounts and discounts to other services. GitHub’s educational program now has more than 100,000 students who collectively push code out more than 50,000 times a day.
“We want to help students get access to real-world tools, real-world experience to learn how to think programmatically and algorithmically and how to apply computing power to what they want to accomplish,” John Britton, GitHub’s education evangelist, told Fast Company.
Britton said it “was not a hard sell” to get participating companies on board, especially since GitHub would take care of the administrative work, including verifying students’ statuses. Currently, the GitHub Student Developer Pack is available to students ages 13 and older pursuing a degree, diploma, or certification. Down the line, the developer pack will be available to those enrolled in noncredentialed coding bootcamps as well, though Britton did not specify a time frame.
The full list of tools in the GitHub Student Developer Pack includes:
Atom, text editor
Open source
Bitnami, cloud host
Business 3 plan (value $49/month) for one year
CrowdFlower, data collection platform
Access to the CrowdFlower platform ($2,500/month) and $50 in worker credit
DigitalOcean, cloud host
$100 in credit
DNSimple, DNS management
Bronze hosted DNS plan ($3/month) for two years
GitHub, code repository
Micro account ($7/month) with five private repositories while enrolled as a student
HackHands, live programming help
$25 in credit
Namecheap, domain registration
One year free .me domain name registration ($9/year) and one year free SSL certificate ($9/year)
Orchestrate, databases as a service
Developer account ($49/month) while enrolled as a student
Screenhero, screen sharing
Individual account ($10/month) while enrolled as a student
SendGrid, email infrastructure
Student plan (normally $5/month) for one year
Stripe, mobile payments platform
Waived transaction fees on first $1,000 in revenue
Travis CI, integration and deployment system
Private builds (normally $69/month) while you’re a student
Unreal Engine, game development tools
Unreal Engine ($19/month) while enrolled as a student