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.
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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 FlowLaunchPad
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 MarkdownPrimer
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
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
Primer
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: CodespacesLaunchPad
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
Additional benefits are not included in the Student Developer Pack, but are exclusively offered by GitHub and partners for this Experience.
Internet of Things offers
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
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
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