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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

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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 Namecheap
  • microsoft Microsoft Azure
  • streamyard StreamYard
  • namecom Name.com
Additional benefits *
  • discord Discord
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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. The Intro to Web Dev Experience gives students the tools to start you on a path, no matter how much experience or technical knowledge you currently have.

Offers in this bundle

  • bootstrapstudio Bootstrap Studio
  • digitalocean DigitalOcean
  • jetbrains JetBrains
  • microsoft Microsoft Azure
  • Intro to Web Dev offers (Total 9)

    Twilio

    • Developer tools
    • Learn
    • Infrastructure & APIs

    GitHub Pages

    • Developer tools

    Bootstrap Studio

    • Design
    • Developer tools

    JetBrains

    • Developer tools

    DigitalOcean

    • Cloud

    Polypane

    • Design
    • Developer tools

    Educative

    • Learn

    Microsoft Azure

    • Cloud
    • Virtual Events

    Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials

    • Cloud
    • Developer tools
    • Learn
Additional benefits *
  • microsoft Microsoft
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Hackathon in the Cloud

Make managing your virtual hackathon events even easier. 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 Typeform
  • github-pages GitHub Pages
  • student-vscode Visual Studio Code
  • gitlens GitLens
  • Hackathon in the Cloud offers (Total 5)

    GitHub Pages

    • Developer tools

    Mailgun

    • Infrastructure & APIs

    Typeform

    • Design
    • Marketing

    GitLens

    • Developer tools

    Visual Studio Code

    • Developer tools
Additional benefits *
  • mlh Major League Hacking
  • mitplatform MIT Platform
  • Hackathon in the Cloud additional benefits (Total 3)

    • mlh Major League Hacking
    • mitplatform MIT Platform
    • github GitHub Discussions
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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 Icons8
  • octicons Octicons
  • iconscout IconScout
  • Aspiring Creatives offers (Total 4)

    Icons8

    • Design

    IconScout

    • Design

    Octicons

    GitHub Community Exchange

Additional benefits *
  • figma Figma
  • figjam FigJam
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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.

Offers in this bundle

  • github-codespaces GitHub Codespaces
Additional benefits *
  • linkedin-learning LinkedIn Learning
  • github Codespaces JS Template
  • Primer: Codespaces additional benefits (Total 6)

    • linkedin-learning LinkedIn Learning
    • github Codespaces JS Template
    • github Codespaces Python Template
    • github Codespaces Discord Template
    • codespaces-vscode-tutorial Codespaces VS Code Tutorial
    • github Blazor WebAssembly framework
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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. This Career Readiness Experience provides you with a four-week guide to launching your career including how to check your skills, organize your projects, prepare for interviews and present a strong portfolio to potential employers.

Offers in this bundle

  • educative Educative
  • interviewcake InterviewCake
  • dailybot DailyBot
  • github-pages GitHub Pages
  • Career Readiness offers (Total 6)

    DailyBot

    • Productivity

    GitHub Pages

    • Developer tools

    InterviewCake

    • Learn

    Educative

    • Learn

    Visme

    • Productivity
    • Design

    AlgoExpert

    • Learn
    • Personal Portfolio
Additional benefits *
  • github GitHub Classroom Career Readiness Course
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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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Namecheap
Namecheap

About Namecheap

Affordable registration, hosting, and domain management

Benefit

1 year domain name registration on the .me TLD.

Virtual Events

Benefit

1 SSL certificate free for 1 year.

Domains Virtual Events
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure

About Microsoft Azure

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

Benefit

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

Cloud Virtual Events
JetBrains
JetBrains

About JetBrains

Professional desktop IDEs: IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and more.

Benefit

A free subscription for students, to be renewed annually.

Developer tools
Name.com
Name.com

About Name.com

Domains, Google Workspace, WordPress, DigitalOcean hosting, and more.

Benefit

Build your online presence with a free .LIVE domain name, free privacy protection, and a free SSL certificate.

Virtual Events Domains
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean

About DigitalOcean

Simple cloud hosting, built for developers

Benefit

Enjoy $200 in platform credit for 1 year!

Cloud
Educative
Educative

About Educative

Level up on trending coding skills at your own pace with interactive, text-based courses.

Benefit

Get 6 free months of 60+ courses covering in-demand topics like Web Development, Python, Java, and Machine Learning.

Learn
.TECH
.TECH

About .TECH

A powerful domain extension to convey that you belong to the technology industry.

Benefit

One standard .TECH domain free for 1 year and 2 free email accounts with 100 MB free storage

Domains
Heroku
Heroku

About Heroku

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

Benefit

Enjoy a credit of $13 USD per month for 12 months.

Cloud Developer tools
GitHub
GitHub

About GitHub

Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management

Benefit

Free GitHub Pro while you are a student.

Developer tools
Bootstrap Studio
Bootstrap Studio

About Bootstrap Studio

Bootstrap Studio is a powerful desktop app for creating responsive websites using the Bootstrap framework.

Benefit

A free license for Bootstrap Studio while you are a student.

Design Developer tools
GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages

About GitHub Pages

Websites for you and your projects. Hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.

Benefit

Get one site per GitHub account and organization, and unlimited project sites.

Developer tools
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code

About Visual Studio Code

Microsoft's goal is to empower all students with the best resources and tools as they learn to code.

Benefit

These coding packs help you download everything you need to start coding in Java, Python, or .NET.

Developer tools
DataCamp
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.

Benefit

Free 3-month individual subscription for students.

Learn
FrontendMasters
FrontendMasters

About FrontendMasters

Advance your skills with in-depth JavaScript, Node.js & front-end engineering courses.

Benefit

Free 6-months access to all courses and workshops.

Learn
GitHub Codespaces
GitHub Codespaces

About GitHub Codespaces

Create a codespace to start developing in a secure, configurable, and dedicated development environment that works how and where you want it to.

Benefit

Free Pro level access to Codespaces to use anywhere in your account.

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.

Benefit

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.

Cloud Developer tools Learn
GitLens
GitLens

About GitLens

GitLens is the #1 Git extension for VS Code; it unlocks the knowledge within your Git repos to help visualize code authorship by leveraging CodeLens and Git blame. GitLens provides auto-linking and rich hover information for GitHub pull requests and issues.

Benefit

Free GitLens+ Pro while you are a student.

Developer tools
AlgoExpert
AlgoExpert

About AlgoExpert

The ultimate resource to prepare for coding interviews. Everything you need, in one streamlined platform.

Benefit

Free access to 20 coding interview questions on AlgoExpert as well as a 10% discount on all AlgoExpert products.

Learn Personal Portfolio
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

Benefit

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.

Developer tools Cloud
Termius
Termius

About Termius

SSH client that works on desktop and mobile. Termius securely syncs data across all your devices.

Benefit

Free access to the Premium plan while you're a student.

Developer tools Mobile
Icons8
Icons8

About Icons8

Icons8 provides design resources: icons, UI illustrations, photos and software to class up your projects.

Benefit

3-month All Access subscription with icons, photos, illustrations, and music.

Design
Polypane
Polypane

About Polypane

A powerful browser and developer tool that lets developers and designers make better websites and web apps in less time.

Benefit

Polypane free for 1 year.

Design Developer tools
Twilio
Twilio

About Twilio

Twilio is a developer platform for communications. Software teams use Twilio APIs to add capabilities like voice, video, and messaging to their applications.

Benefit

$50 in Twilio API credits and exclusive in-game items in TwilioQuest. The credit can only be applied to new Twilio accounts.

Developer tools Learn Infrastructure & APIs
IconScout
IconScout

About IconScout

IconScout is a design resources marketplace with over 4.9 million icons, illustrations, 3D assets, and Lottie animations.

Benefit

Free access to 60 premium icons from selected contributors every month for 1 year.

Design
Octicons
Octicons

About Octicons

Octicons is an open source library created specifically for GitHub's UI.

Benefit

Using Figma designs to build the Octicons icon library

MongoDB
MongoDB

About MongoDB

A general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era.

Benefit

$50 in MongoDB Atlas Credits, plus access to MongoDB Compass and MongoDB University including free certification valued at $150.

Infrastructure & APIs
Testmail
Testmail

About Testmail

Get unlimited email addresses and mailboxes for automating email tests with our powerful APIs.

Benefit

Free Essential plan while you're a student.

Developer tools
Scrimba
Scrimba

About Scrimba

Scrimba is an interactive learning platform for frontend developers.

Benefit

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.

Learn Developer tools
GitKraken
GitKraken

About GitKraken

GitKraken Client is the most popular Git client for Windows, Mac & Linux, offering both a GUI and terminal interface. Deep integration with GitHub repos and issues enable interactive pull request management and issue management directly in the client.

Benefit

Free GitKraken Client Pro ($59 value) while you’re a student.

Developer tools
OneMonth
OneMonth

About OneMonth

Learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Python in just 30 days!

Benefit

Free 30-day One Month subscription.

Learn
Github Campus Experts
Github Campus Experts

About Github Campus Experts

GitHub Campus Experts are students who build technical communities on campus, with training and support from GitHub.

Benefit

Apply to become part of the program while you’re a student.

Learn
Replit
Replit

About Replit

An online IDE that lets you instantly code in over fifty languages. Start learning, building, collaborating and hosting all in one place.

Benefit

Six free months of private repls.

Developer tools Learn
InterviewCake
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.

Benefit

Access to the full coding interview prep course for 3 weeks.

Learn
StreamYard
StreamYard

About StreamYard

The easiest way to create professional live streams.

Benefit

Free access to the Essential Plan while you are a student.

Virtual Events
Deepnote
Deepnote

About Deepnote

Deepnote is a new kind of data notebook built for collaboration - Jupyter compatible, works magically in the cloud, and sharing is as easy as sending a link.

Benefit

Our offer includes free use of the Deepnote Team plan while you are a student. The Deepnote Team Plan includes: Unlimited team members & projects, 30-day version history, unlimited basic machines with up to 5GB RAM and 2vCPU, premium integrations (Snowflake, SQL Server, BigQuery, Redshift, and more), and 30-day revision history.

Developer tools Machine Learning & AI
DeepSource
DeepSource

About DeepSource

Static analysis platform to help you write good code.

Benefit

Free to use for students enrolled in GitHub Education pack.

Developer tools
PomoDone
PomoDone

About PomoDone

With PomoDone, hack and track your time and boost your productivity by applying Pomodoro technique to your workflow -- eliminate distraction, sharpen focus and prevent burnout.

Benefit

PomoDone Lite plan free for 2-years.

Productivity
Visme
Visme

About Visme

The all-in-one platform for creating engaging and interactive presentations, visual documents, data visualizations, short videos and other branded content you can be proud of.

Benefit

Get 3 free months free access to Visme's Starter plan.

Productivity Design
GitHub Community Exchange
GitHub Community Exchange

About GitHub Community Exchange

A student community within the GitHub Global Campus portal. As a student, it's a place where you can get exposure for your project and discover other student repositories in need of collaborators and maintainers.

Benefit

Learn the skills you need to contribute to open source projects and grow your own portfolio, with GitHub Community Exchange.

Netwise
Netwise

About Netwise

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

Benefit

Free single unit server colocation package free for 12 months.

Cloud Internet of Things
Mailgun
Mailgun

About Mailgun

Powerful APIs that enable you to send, receive and track email effortlessly.

Benefit

20,000 free emails and 100 free email validations each month for up to 12 months.

Infrastructure & APIs
CodeScene
CodeScene

About CodeScene

Learn how to write healthier code, pinpoint and manage tech debt and other code quality issues. CodeScene gives you instant feedback on your code and recommendations based on the best coding practices and latest standards. Integrate CodeScene into your pull requests to get automated code reviews, set quality gates and only merge quality code. 25+ programming languages are supported.

Benefit

A free Student account to analyze private GitHub repositories.

Security & analytics Developer tools
Typeform
Typeform

About Typeform

Interactive forms, surveys & quizzes to engage and grow your audience

Benefit

Free professional plan for 1 year.

Design Marketing
Datadog
Datadog

About Datadog

Cloud-based infrastructure monitoring.

Benefit

Pro Account, including 10 servers. Free for 2 years.

Security & analytics
Stripe
Stripe

About Stripe

Web and mobile payments, built for developers

Benefit

Waived transaction fees on first $1000 in revenue processed.

Infrastructure & APIs
Pageclip
Pageclip

About Pageclip

A server for your static websites and HTML forms.

Benefit

Free basic plan while you are a student.

Infrastructure & APIs
New Relic
New Relic

About New Relic

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

Benefit

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

Developer tools Cloud
BrowserStack
BrowserStack

About BrowserStack

Test your web apps with BrowserStack's Real Device Cloud, which gives you instant access to 2000+ browsers and real iOS and Android devices.

Benefit

Free Automate Mobile Plan for 1 parallel and 1 user for 1 year.

Developer tools
Thinkful
Thinkful

About Thinkful

Learn Fundamentals of Web Development to launch your career as a developer

Benefit

1 month of access to a web development course.

Learn
Arduino
Arduino

About Arduino

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

Benefit

Free Arduino Create Maker plan for 6 months and discounts on selected hardware.

Internet of Things Infrastructure & APIs
GoRails
GoRails

About GoRails

Tutorials for web developers learning Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Turbolinks, Stimulus.js, Vue.js, and more.

Benefit

Free access to all videos and lessons for 12 months.

Learn
HazeOver
HazeOver

About HazeOver

Get focused while working on your projects or studying with HazeOver for Mac.

Benefit

Free app license, including minor updates.

Productivity
PopSQL
PopSQL

About PopSQL

Modern, collaborative SQL editor for your team — write queries, visualize data, and share your results.

Benefit

Free Premium subscription for PopSQL while you're a student.

Developer tools
Kodika
Kodika

About Kodika

Build iOS applications with drag & drop.

Benefit

Kodika Unlimited Pro subscription free for 6 months.

Design Developer tools Mobile
GitHub Desktop
GitHub Desktop

About GitHub Desktop

Reduces frustration and makes Git and GitHub workflows more approachable.

Benefit

Open Source by GitHub, free for everyone.

Developer tools
Imgbot
Imgbot

About Imgbot

Imgbot is a GitHub App that automatically optimizes your images.

Benefit

Free image optimization for all your public and private projects while you are a student.

Infrastructure & APIs
Tower
Tower

About Tower

The Git client that brings all of Git and GitHub's power to the desktop, for Mac and Windows.

Benefit

Free license for Tower Pro while you are a student.

Developer tools
WorkingCopy
WorkingCopy

About WorkingCopy

Powerful Git client for iPhone & iPad.

Benefit

All Pro features for free while you are a student.

Developer tools Mobile
DailyBot
DailyBot

About DailyBot

Automate daily stand-ups, follow-ups, retrospectives, surveys and feedback for your team.

Benefit

DailyBot Business plan free for 10 users for 6 months.

Productivity
Travis CI
Travis CI

About Travis CI

Continuous integration platform for open source and private projects

Benefit

Private builds for free while you're a student.

Developer tools Infrastructure & APIs
Adafruit
Adafruit

About Adafruit

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

Benefit

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

Internet of Things Infrastructure & APIs
Zyte
Zyte

About Zyte

Zyte's Scrapy Cloud is a battle-tested cloud platform for running web crawlers. Manage and automate your web spiders at scale.

Benefit

1 Free Forever Scrapy Cloud Unit - unlimited team members, projects or requests. Unlimited crawl time and 120 day data retention.

Developer tools
Themeisle
Themeisle

About Themeisle

Neve’s mobile-first approach, compatibility with AMP and popular page-builders makes website building accessible for everyone.

Benefit

Free year of Neve Agency WordPress theme exclusively for students.

Design Infrastructure & APIs
LambdaTest
LambdaTest

About LambdaTest

Perform automated and live interactive cross browser testing on 2000+ real browsers and operating systems online.

Benefit

Free LambdaTest Live Plan for one year.

Developer tools
Xojo
Xojo

About Xojo

A cross-platform development tool for making native apps for the Desktop.

Benefit

Xojo Desktop license free while you are a student.

Design Developer tools
Dashlane
Dashlane

About Dashlane

Cloud-based password manager.

Benefit

Dashlane Premium free for 6 months.

Productivity
Cryptolens
Cryptolens

About Cryptolens

License and sell your software securely.

Benefit

10 licenses and any number of end-users for free for students.

Developer tools Infrastructure & APIs
Blackfire
Blackfire

About Blackfire

Code performance measurement tool. Find & fix bottlenecks.

Benefit

Free Profiler subscription for students and teachers.

Security & analytics
Codecov
Codecov

About Codecov

Codecov makes it easy to implement code coverage to develop healthier code

Benefit

Free access to Codecov on public and private repositories.

Developer tools
Sentry
Sentry

About Sentry

Track errors in every language, framework, and library.

Benefit

Students enjoy: 50K errors, 100K transactions, 1GB attachments, 500 replays, Team features, 1 yr limit (can renew), Disabled On-demand

Infrastructure & APIs Developer tools
Lingohub
Lingohub

About Lingohub

Translation management service for web, desktop and mobile apps.

Benefit

Free Professional Plan containing 10,000 text segments for students.

Developer tools Infrastructure & APIs Productivity
Restyled
Restyled

About Restyled

With Restyled, automatically re-format Pull Requests to have consistent style.

Benefit

Run Restyled for free on private repositories while you're a student.

Developer tools
Vaadin
Vaadin

About Vaadin

Best open source Java framework for building Progressive Web Applications.

Benefit

Free Pro subscription license to access the commercial components and tools.

Infrastructure & APIs
Blockchair
Blockchair

About Blockchair

Connect to the world of blockchains through Blockchair’s professional APIs — supports most major cryptocurrencies.

Benefit

100,000 free requests.

Infrastructure & APIs
Doppler
Doppler

About Doppler

A different way to manage secrets. From local development to production, we work on every stack, scaling with you as your team and products grow.

Benefit

Free Doppler subscription while the user is an active student.

Infrastructure & APIs Security & analytics Developer tools
Freshpaint
Freshpaint

About Freshpaint

Integrate your marketing and analytics tools with one click.

Benefit

Free Freshpaint Growth Plan while you are a student.

Marketing Infrastructure & APIs
SimpleAnalytics
SimpleAnalytics

About SimpleAnalytics

Privacy-friendly analytics with a simple interface and API.

Benefit

Starter plan free for one year, including 100k page views per month.

Infrastructure & APIs Marketing
AccessLint
AccessLint

About AccessLint

AccessLint brings automated web accessibility testing into your development workflow.

Benefit

Unlimited use for public and private repositories while you are a student.

Developer tools
CARTO
CARTO

About CARTO

An open and powerful platform for spatial data analysis, visualization, and application creation.

Benefit

Free account upgrades with increased database storage, real time data, Location Data Services Credits, and premium features for 2 years.

Infrastructure & APIs
SymfonyCasts
SymfonyCasts

About SymfonyCasts

Master Symfony and PHP with video tutorials and code challenges.

Benefit

Free 3-month subscription for students.

Learn
AstraSecurity
AstraSecurity

About AstraSecurity

Security suite for your website - firewall, malware scanner & managed bug bounty platform.

Benefit

6 month access to website firewall & malware scanner

Security & analytics
DeepScan
DeepScan

About DeepScan

DeepScan is a platform for building better and more reliable JavaScript apps.

Benefit

Free 6-month trial while you are a student.

Developer tools
POEditor
POEditor

About POEditor

POEditor is a highly scalable localization management platform for teams.

Benefit

Plus Plan for free for one year.

Developer tools Infrastructure & APIs
SQLGate
SQLGate

About SQLGate

Simple but powerful IDE for multiple SQL databases.

Benefit

Access to most Standard Subscription features for 1 year.

Developer tools
Honeybadger
Honeybadger

About Honeybadger

The web developer's secret weapon: exception, uptime, and cron monitoring that's so awesome, you'll wish your site had more errors.

Benefit

Free Small account for 1 year.

Security & analytics
ConfigCat
ConfigCat

About ConfigCat

Learn feature flags with the industry leading feature flag service.

Benefit

1000 feature flags, ∞ users for free.

Developer tools Infrastructure & APIs
Appfigures
Appfigures

About Appfigures

App Store analytics, optimization, and intelligence.

Benefit

Free access to analytics tracking, alerts, and the complete line of App Store Optimization tools for one year.

Marketing
Baremetrics
Baremetrics

About Baremetrics

Metrics, dunning, and engagement tools for SaaS & subscription businesses.

Benefit

Get Baremetrics for free up to $2.5k Monthly Recurring Revenue while you are a student.

Marketing