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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 Global Campus.

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Tools

GitHub Foundations Certification

Everything you need to get started preparing for the GitHub Foundations Certification exam including FAQs, guides, prep courses, and more is below while we get the offer back up and running!

Offers in this bundle

  • 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

    OpenSauced

    • Developer tools
    • Learn

    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 7)

    GitHub

    • Developer tools

    Microsoft Azure

    • Cloud
    • Virtual Events

    Educative

    • Learn

    POEditor

    • Developer tools
    • Infrastructure & APIs

    Bump.sh

    • Infrastructure & APIs
    • Developer tools

    GitHub Copilot

    • Machine Learning & AI

    Visme

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

Security and Monitoring

Explore industry standard tools that keep your code safe, your permissions secure and your infrastructure monitored so that you can confidently scale your brilliant ideas.

Offers in this bundle

  • GitHub
  • Blackfire
  • Honeybadger
  • AstraSecurity
  • Security and Monitoring offers (Total 8)

    GitHub

    • Developer tools

    Blackfire

    • Security & analytics

    Honeybadger

    • Security & analytics

    AstraSecurity

    • Security & analytics

    1Password

    • Developer tools
    • Security & analytics

    Doppler

    • Infrastructure & APIs
    • Security & analytics
    • Developer tools

    New Relic

    • Developer tools
    • Cloud
    • Security & analytics
Learn more about Security and Monitoring
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Primer

Primer: 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 Copilot
  • GitHub Codespaces
  • Visual Studio Code
Learn more about Primer: Copilot
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Tools

Career Readiness

Whether you’re approaching graduation or just want to get a head start, it’s never too early to prepare for your future in the industry.

Offers in this bundle

  • Educative
  • InterviewCake
  • DailyBot
  • GitHub Pages
  • Career Readiness offers (Total 6)

    Educative

    • Learn

    InterviewCake

    • Learn

    DailyBot

    • Productivity

    GitHub Pages

    • Developer tools

    Visme

    • Productivity
    • Design

    AlgoExpert

    • Learn
    • Personal Portfolio
Learn more about Career Readiness
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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

Hackathon in the Cloud

Learn how to organize, promote, and communicate your next codefest or hackday. Whether you're hosting your first or you’re a pro, the Hackathon in the Cloud Experience gives students the tools to help empower student hacker communities.

Offers in this bundle

  • Typeform
  • GitHub Pages
  • HackMIT
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Hackathon in the Cloud offers (Total 6)

    GitHub Pages

    • Developer tools

    Visual Studio Code

    • Developer tools

    GitLens

    • Developer tools

    Mailgun

    • Infrastructure & APIs
Learn more about Hackathon in the Cloud
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Tools

Aspiring Creatives

Working on a creative project? Develop your design and collaboration skills to get your clever intentions off the ground. Unleash your originality and start to tinker with the Aspiring Creatives Experience.

Offers in this bundle

  • Icons8
  • Octicons
  • IconScout
  • Aspiring Creatives offers (Total 5)

    Icons8

    • Design

    GitHub Community Exchange

    Octicons

    IconScout

    • Design
Learn more about Aspiring Creatives
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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
  • Kodika
  • Mobile App Development offers (Total 8)

    Microsoft Azure

    • Cloud
    • Virtual Events

    FrontendMasters

    • Learn

    LambdaTest

    • Developer tools

    Kodika

    • Design
    • Developer tools
    • Mobile

    Bump.sh

    • Infrastructure & APIs
    • Developer tools

    GitHub Codespaces

Learn more about Mobile App Development
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Tools

Developer Operations

Developer Operations (DevOps) is the symbiotic relationship between teams, culture and development that allows for collaboration, growth and continuous improvement. Used as a set of practices and tools, DevOps integrates and automates the work of software development and operations as a means for improving the development life cycle.

Offers in this bundle

  • Travis CI
  • GitHub
  • Sentry
  • BrowserStack
  • Developer Operations offers (Total 7)

    Travis CI

    • Developer tools
    • Infrastructure & APIs

    GitHub

    • Developer tools

    Sentry

    • Infrastructure & APIs
    • Developer tools

    BrowserStack

    • Developer tools

    DevCycle

    • Developer tools
    • Security & analytics

    CodeScene

    • Security & analytics
    • Developer tools

    New Relic

    • Developer tools
    • Cloud
    • Security & analytics
Learn more about Developer Operations
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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
  • StreamYard
  • Name.com
Learn more about Virtual Event Kit
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LaunchPad

Intro to GitHub Flow

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.

Learn more about Intro to GitHub Flow
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LaunchPad

Communicate using Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. More simply put, Markdown is a way to write content for the web and one of the most important ways developers can make their communication clear and organized in issues and pull requests. This Experience walks you through the common uses of Markdown in GitHub so that you can feel confident communicating on the platform.

Learn more about Communicate using Markdown
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Primer

Explore GitHub

This Primer makes it easy by giving you the guidance and resources you need to start exploring the platform, begin following projects, and find your community on GitHub.

Offers in this bundle

  • GitHub
  • Github Campus Experts
Learn more about Explore GitHub
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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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Primer: Codespaces

Wondering how to get started with Codespaces? This Primer makes it easy by giving you the templates, videos and step-by-step resources you need to get you started running, testing, debugging and pushing code using this instant cloud developer environment.

Learn more about Primer: Codespaces
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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.

Adafruit

Adafruit

About Adafruit

Adafruit is an open-source hardware and open-source educational electronics company based in NYC, USA.

Offers

Offer

One year of Adafruit IO+ and discounts on selected hardware.

Tags
  • Internet of Things
  • Infrastructure & APIs

Get help at Adafruit support

Arduino

Arduino

About Arduino

Empower scientists and artists of the future with creative STEM programs.

Offers

Offer

Free Arduino Cloud for 6 months and discounts on selected hardware.

Tags
  • Internet of Things
  • Infrastructure & APIs

Get help at Arduino support

Netwise

Netwise

About Netwise

Turnkey data centre services for the hosting of critical IT infrastructure systems.

Offers

Offer

Free single unit server colocation package free for 12 months.

Tags
  • Cloud
  • Internet of Things

Get help at Netwise support