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GitHub Student Developer Pack

Learn to ship software like a pro. There's no substitute for hands-on experience. But for most students, real world tools can be cost-prohibitive. That's why we created the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our partners and friends.

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Experiences

Discover the best ways to use pack offers with Experiences. Experiences are curated bundles of pack partner products, GitHub tools, and other resources that are designed for you learn new skills and make the most out of the Student Developer Pack and your journey in GitHub Education.

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LaunchPad

Intro to Copilot

What is Copilot and how do you get started using it? Use this Experience as a Primer on Copilot. We share tutorials, guides and templates to learn how to use AI in your development process.

Offers in this bundle

  • GitHub
  • GitHub Copilot
  • GitHub Codespaces
  • Visual Studio Code
Learn more about Intro to Copilot
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LaunchPad

Intro to GitHub

GitHub flow is a lightweight, branch-based workflow. In this Experience you'll learn the basics of the GitHub Flow including creating and making changes to branches within a repository, as well as creating and merging pull requests. The GitHub flow is useful for everyone, not just developers.

Offers in this bundle

  • GitHub
Learn more about Intro to GitHub
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Tools

GitHub Foundations Certification

Everything you need to get started preparing for and taking the GitHub Foundations Certification exam including FAQs, guides, prep courses, and more.

Offers in this bundle

  • DataCamp
  • GitHub
  • Microsoft Azure
Learn more about GitHub Foundations Certification
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Tools

Intro to Open Source

Everything you need to know to understand the origins of open source work, how to become a contributor, a maintainer or a sponsor of an open source project and how to propel open source work into a career. Start with the basics including intro guides, how to find good first issues and basic open source vocabulary. Then begin to explore some of the best tools and thought leadership that will help you discover new ways of contributing.

Offers in this bundle

  • Travis CI
  • GitHub
  • OpenSauced
  • GitHub Codespaces
  • Intro to Open Source offers (Total 8)

    Travis CI

    • Developer tools
    • Infrastructure & APIs

    GitHub

    • Developer tools

    GitHub Codespaces

    Codedex

    • Learn
    • Developer tools
    • Virtual Events

    Visual Studio Code

    • Developer tools

    GitLens

    • Developer tools

    GitKraken

    • Developer tools
Learn more about Intro to Open Source
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Tools

AI Prompting & Technical Writing

This Experience offers the tools, top tips and resources you'll need to get started becoming a technical wizard with words.

Offers in this bundle

  • GitHub
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Educative
  • POEditor
  • AI Prompting & Technical Writing offers (Total 6)

    GitHub

    • Developer tools

    Microsoft Azure

    • Cloud
    • Virtual Events

    Educative

    • Learn

    POEditor

    • Developer tools
    • Infrastructure & APIs

    GitHub Copilot

    • Machine Learning & AI

    Visme

    • Productivity
    • Design
Learn more about AI Prompting & Technical Writing
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Tools

Intro to Web Dev

Everything you need to build your next website. Learn how to design and build your own website as you learn the basics of web development.

Offers in this bundle

  • LambdaTest
  • Polypane
  • Bootstrap Studio
  • DigitalOcean
  • Intro to Web Dev offers (Total 8)

    LambdaTest

    • Developer tools

    Polypane

    • Design
    • Developer tools

    Bootstrap Studio

    • Design
    • Developer tools

    DigitalOcean

    • Cloud

    Microsoft Azure

    • Cloud
    • Virtual Events

    Educative

    • Learn

    GitHub Pages

    • Developer tools

    Microsoft Azure (for ages 13-17)

    • Developer tools
    • Cloud
Learn more about Intro to Web Dev
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Tools

Data Science & Machine Learning

Flex your skills in data collection, cleaning, analysis, visualization, programming, and machine learning. The Data Science & Machine Learning experience gives you the tools to analyze, collaborate and harness the power of predictive data to build amazing projects.

Offers in this bundle

  • Datadog
  • SQLGate
  • GitHub Codespaces
  • Deepnote
  • Data Science & Machine Learning offers (Total 6)

    Datadog

    • Security & analytics

    SQLGate

    • Developer tools

    GitHub Codespaces

    Deepnote

    • Developer tools
    • Machine Learning & AI

    DataCamp

    • Learn

    MongoDB

    • Infrastructure & APIs
Learn more about Data Science & Machine Learning
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Tools

Mobile App Development

Have an idea for a mobile app you'd like to bring to life? This Mobile App Development Experience gives you the tools, resources and inspiration to design, build, test and deploy your next mobile application.

Offers in this bundle

  • Microsoft Azure
  • FrontendMasters
  • LambdaTest
  • NativeScript
  • Mobile App Development offers (Total 6)

    Microsoft Azure

    • Cloud
    • Virtual Events

    FrontendMasters

    • Learn

    LambdaTest

    • Developer tools

    GitHub Codespaces

Learn more about Mobile App Development
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Tools

Virtual Event Kit

Everything you need for your virtual event. Design for engagement and we'll take care of the tools. The Virtual Event Kit gives students the resources to make running online events simple and accessible.

Offers in this bundle

  • Namecheap
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Name.com
Learn more about Virtual Event Kit
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LaunchPad

Profile README

Say ‘Hello world’ with a profile README that lets you introduce yourself to the GitHub community. You decide what information to include in your profile README, so you have full control over how you present yourself on GitHub. This experience walks you through a quick tutorial to create your profile README.

Offers in this bundle

  • GitHub
Learn more about Profile README
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LaunchPad

Launchpad: Intro to Javascript

This launchpad uses Scrimba’s uniquely interactive approach to let you simultaneously watch a simple javascript tutorial and edit code in real time. No prior knowledge is required to write your first lines of code.

Offers in this bundle

  • Scrimba
Learn more about Launchpad: Intro to Javascript

Additional benefits are not included in the Student Developer Pack, but are exclusively offered by GitHub and partners for this Experience.

Appwrite

Appwrite

About Appwrite

Appwrite is an open-source, developer infrastructure platform for building web, mobile, and AI apps. It includes both a backend server and a fully integrated hosting solution for deploying static and server-side rendered frontends.

Offers

Offer

Free access to Appwrite's Education plan (2 projects with equivalent resource limits as Appwrite Pro, worth $40/month) throughout the course of your student career (i.e., as long as you remain a member of the GitHub Student Developer Pack)

Tags
  • Cloud
  • Developer tools

Get help at Appwrite support

Camber

Camber

About Camber

AI-powered, cloud-based platform designed for scientific computing, simulations, and data analysis.

Offers

Offer

Free Camber Student plan that includes 200 CPU hours, 75GB of storage, and 200 LLM messages per month, plus additional student benefits designed to supercharge your research.

Tags
  • Cloud
  • Learn

Get help at Camber support

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

About DigitalOcean

Simple cloud hosting, built for developers

Offers

Offer

Enjoy $200 in platform credit for 1 year!

Tags
  • Cloud

Get help at DigitalOcean support

Heroku

Heroku

About Heroku

A flexible, easy-to-use platform to deploy, run, and manage your apps.

Offers

Offer

Enjoy a credit of $13 USD per month for 24 months.

Tags
  • Cloud
  • Developer tools

Get help at Heroku support

LocalStack

LocalStack

About LocalStack

LocalStack emulates AWS services right on your laptop, so you can build and test cloud applications without connecting to the AWS cloud.

Offers

Offer

Free license to LocalStack’s most powerful AWS emulator in a ready-to-use cloud environment

Tags
  • Cloud
  • Developer tools
  • Infrastructure & APIs

Get help at LocalStack support

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure

About Microsoft Azure

Access to Microsoft Azure cloud services and learning resources – no credit card required

Offers

Offer

Free access to 25+ Microsoft Azure cloud services plus $100 in Azure credit. For students aged 18+.

Tags
  • Cloud
  • Virtual Events

Get help at Microsoft Azure support

Microsoft Azure (for ages 13-17)

Microsoft Azure (for ages 13-17)

About Microsoft Azure (for ages 13-17)

Access to Microsoft Azure cloud services and learning resources for students aged 13-17 – no credit card required

Offers

Offer

For students age 13-17. Free access to Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Notification Hubs, MySQL database from MySQL in-app, Application Insights, Azure DevOps.

Tags
  • Developer tools
  • Cloud

Get help at Microsoft Azure (for ages 13-17) support

Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials

Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials

About Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials

Free developer tools, cloud services and training from Microsoft.

Offers

Offer

Visual Studio Community, Visual Studio Community for Mac, access to Pluralsight training, 1 free year of Azure services with $200 credit for the 1st month and more.

Tags
  • Cloud
  • Developer tools
  • Learn

Get help at Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials support

New Relic

New Relic

About New Relic

New Relic is an observability platform that helps fully understand how to improve your software.

Offers

Offer

Free New Relic while you are a student. ($300/month value)

Tags
  • Developer tools
  • Cloud
  • Security & analytics

Get help at New Relic support

Requestly

Requestly

About Requestly

Requestly is an open-source tool for developers to intercept, modify, and mock HTTP requests and responses to build, test, and manage APIs

Offers

Offer

Requestly Professional plan (worth $270) free for one year.

Tags
  • Infrastructure & APIs
  • Developer tools
  • Cloud

Get help at Requestly support