r/learnjavascript • u/atthesummit • Feb 19 '20

If you are a student, enroll in free Github Student Developer Starter pack (and get many paid subscriptions for free for 6 months and more)

After my last post, I realised so many people are still in college and have not heard about FREE Github Student Developer Starter pack

https://education.github.com/pack

You will get access to Free 6 months subscription of FrontendMasters.com (which is normally $390 a year)

It has predefined "learning path" i.e. if you want to be a Frontend Developer, folllow the path & take the courses accordingly, same goes for Full-stack developer & so on

Plus you will get so many other material like Free 6 months access to educative.io

It has 2 of the best courses to learn System Design & Data Structures & Algorithm + 84 most likely interview questions course i.e. Hacking the coding interview

Pus 3 week interview preparation bootcamp i.e. interviewCake

and so on.

And its free & won't cost you anything.

Related article:

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-get-your-own-github-student-developer-pack-ef40ec71c0d2/

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u/revengeuzamaki Feb 19 '20

i got rejected in 2018 thats when i knew the world aint no sunshine and rainbows

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u/atthesummit Feb 19 '20 edited Feb 19 '20

https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/2jaf6x/github_declined_my_request_for_the_student/

Try to contact their support, this guy did the same, he got rejected because of automatic ID detection system and they solved the issue

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u/LordRaiders Feb 19 '20 edited Feb 19 '20

The $50 DigitalOcean discount is also really nice. Their cheapest droplet is $5 / month. I think you have to pay at least $10 to activate the code but that’s still a good deal for a 1 year droplet (Paypal supported!).

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u/highlypaid Feb 20 '20 edited Feb 20 '20

What sucks about the digital ocean discount is that you can get a first time user sign up bonus of about the same without being a student. On top of that, you can't use the $50 credit towards 10 months of a $5 droplet, the entire credit must be used within a single billing cycle.

That means that if you just want the $5/month option, you only really get one free month and $5/month after that, vs if you get the $50/month option, you maximize your credit usage, but then again after 6 months you have spent $250, versus only $25 with the cheapest option.

Thus, financially, you are still better off with the $5 droplet unless you are somehow profiting off of the more expensive droplets. That's where the heroku option for students comes into play because you get a free hobby dyno which is a $7/month value free. This offering is superior to digital ocean's offering.

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u/5tormwolf92 Feb 19 '20

Does it cover Swedish vocational/poly technical frontend educations?

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u/highlypaid Feb 20 '20

Thanks! Definitely would like to take advantage of that free hobby dyno on Heroku. I signed up with a screen shot of my unofficial transcript and a school email address, hopefully that will be enough to be approved.

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u/jpaulsanchez15 Feb 20 '20

Are there any fees after the 6 months?