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.
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.
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GitHub
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GitHub Copilot
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GitHub Codespaces
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Visual Studio Code
LaunchPad
Understanding 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.
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GitHub
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.
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GitHub
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.
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DataCamp
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GitHub
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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.
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Travis CI
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GitHub
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OpenSauced
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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.
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GitHub
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Microsoft Azure
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Educative
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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.
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GitHub
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Blackfire
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Honeybadger
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AstraSecurity
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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.
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Educative
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InterviewCake
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DailyBot
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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.
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LambdaTest
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Polypane
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Bootstrap Studio
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DigitalOcean
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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.
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GitHub Pages
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HackMIT
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Visual Studio Code
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GitLens
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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.
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Icons8
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Octicons
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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.
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Datadog
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SQLGate
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GitHub Codespaces
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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.
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Microsoft Azure
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FrontendMasters
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LambdaTest
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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.
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Travis CI
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GitHub
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Sentry
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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.
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Namecheap
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Microsoft Azure
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Name.com
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.
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GitHub
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Scrimba
Additional benefits are not included in the Student Developer Pack, but are exclusively offered by GitHub and partners for this Experience.
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Codedex
About Codedex
Codédex is a brand new learn-to-code platform for Gen Z with courses in Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Git & GitHub, Command Line, and more. Start your coding adventure today.
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Verified students receive 6 months of Codédex Club, a premium membership for free.
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- Learn
- Developer tools
- Virtual Events
Get help at Codedex support
DataCamp
About DataCamp
DataCamp helps companies and individuals make better use of data. Our users build data fluency while learning from the world’s top data scientists.
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DataCamp has partnered with GitHub Education to offer three months of free access when you sign up for a DataCamp subscription with your GitHub student account.
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- Learn
Get help at DataCamp support
Educative
About Educative
Discover the best learning environment to learn and retain concepts effortlessly. Experience instant coding with browser-based Playgrounds, engage with interactive hands-on labs, and follow guided tutorials for seamless mastery.
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Dive into 6 months of free access to over 70 practical courses, covering hot topics like Web Development, Python, Java, and Machine Learning. Plus, students enjoy an awesome 30% discount on any subscription they pick!
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- Learn
Get help at Educative support
FrontendMasters
About FrontendMasters
Advance your skills with in-depth JavaScript, Node.js & front-end engineering courses.
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Free 6-months access to all courses and workshops.
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- Learn
Get help at FrontendMasters support
Scrimba
About Scrimba
Scrimba is an interactive learning platform for frontend developers.
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Level up your coding skills with interactive courses, projects, and challenges. Learn JavaScript, CSS, React, Python, and more. Enjoy 1 month of free access to Full access to Scrimba’s Pro courses, projects, and coding challenges, which includes 40+ courses.
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- Learn
- Developer tools
Get help at Scrimba support
Github Campus Experts
About Github Campus Experts
GitHub Campus Experts are students who build technical communities on campus, with training and support from GitHub.
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Apply to become part of the program while you’re a student.
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- Learn
Get help at Github Campus Experts support
Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials
About Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials
Free developer tools, cloud services and training from Microsoft.
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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.
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- Cloud
- Developer tools
- Learn
Get help at Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials support
AlgoExpert
About AlgoExpert
The ultimate resource to prepare for coding interviews. Everything you need, in one streamlined platform.
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Offer
Free access to 20 coding interview questions on AlgoExpert as well as a 10% discount on all AlgoExpert products.
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- Learn
- Personal Portfolio
Get help at AlgoExpert support
InterviewCake
About InterviewCake
Interview Cake makes coding interviews a piece of cake with practice questions, data structures and algorithms reference pages, cheat sheets, and more.
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Access to the full coding interview prep course for 1 week.
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- Learn
Get help at InterviewCake support
GoRails
About GoRails
Tutorials for web developers learning Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Turbolinks, Stimulus.js, Vue.js, and more.
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Free access to all videos and lessons for 12 months.
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- Learn
Get help at GoRails support
SlideCoach
About SlideCoach
Slide Coach is an AI presentation coach. Practice your presentations in private with your personal AI coach. Get instant, data-driven feedback, and walk into any room ready to own it.
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Enjoy 2,000 free credits for SlideCoach—equivalent to 40 AI-powered presentation sessions—valid for one year after redemption.
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- Learn
- Productivity
- Personal Portfolio
Get help at SlideCoach support
OpenSauced
About OpenSauced
OpenSauced provides tools and courses to track, document, and grow your open source experience.
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Use OpenSauced to enhance your open source journey by helping you to find interesting repositories that match your academic and personal interests, document your journey, learn from the community, and showcase your growth. You can also use their courses to deepen your understanding of open source.
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- Developer tools
- Learn
Get help at OpenSauced support
Thinkful
About Thinkful
Learn Fundamentals of Web Development to launch your career as a developer
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1 month of access to a web development course.
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- Learn
Get help at Thinkful support
SymfonyCasts
About SymfonyCasts
Master Symfony and PHP with video tutorials and code challenges.
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Free 3-month subscription for students.
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- Learn
Get help at SymfonyCasts support