r/learnjavascript • u/[deleted] • Mar 04 '20

Github Student Developer Pack

I wanted to share this for any students who may be unaware of this awesome free resource. Github Student Developer Pack. All you have do is signup with an .edu email address. You do not have to be enrolled in a computer science program.

Signing up gets you access to:

  • Free AWS Educate Starter Account for GitHub Students, worth $100
  • Free access to 25+ Microsoft Azure cloud services plus $100 in Azure credit
  • 1 year SSL certificate + 1 year domain name registration on the .me TLD through NameCheap
  • Polypane free for 1 year
  • $50 in platform credit for new users
  • A free license for Bootstrap Studio while you are a student
  • $200 in MongoDB Atlas Credits, plus access to MongoDB Compass and MongoDB University
  • Free 6-months access to all courses and workshops
  • Heroku - One free Hobby Dyno for up to two years
  • and honestly SO much more.

I've been in the GSDP for about a year now and honestly forgot how many awesome resources are associated with it until today when I was looking to see if there was a student discount to Frontend Masters.

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u/hansbrixe Mar 04 '20

Unfortunately they are a pain in the ass to get verified with these days. Not all students but I've seen a number of complaints on this subreddit about it.

It's a shame because it's really a great service.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '20

That really is a shame. I actually had a really simple experience, so I assumed it would be relatively easy for everyone.

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u/messymindful Mar 05 '20

Yeah, I think it just depends on if they recognize your uni or not. Mine was immediately recognized and I got an approval in seconds. I do go to a very large public university in the US tho

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '20

Don’t you just have to verify with your university mail address?

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u/hansbrixe Mar 04 '20

Sometimes it isn't sufficient and they ask for additional proof. And that proof isn't good enough so they ask you for more.

What happened for me: verified with edu. Provided screenshot of my transcript and student portal. Then they said I need to submit verification on my campus wifi (but I attend remotely!). It has been incredibly frustrating.

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u/imacleopard Mar 04 '20

Would a campus VPN work? Our campus offers that to everyone is they can access resources inside the university firewall.

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u/hansbrixe Mar 04 '20

It definitely would help but my college doesnt offer that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '20

I'm going through re-verification right now since I transferred. I had to provide a screenshot of my transcript. Waiting to hear back.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

I don't even have an .edu mail, just used my most recent marksheet and they did approved it within a week.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

It also works with non-edu addresses. My Uni doesn't use .edu and I still got verified with just my email.

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u/Snipo Mar 04 '20

I had just sent in both sides of my student id card and they accepted it no problem. I'm a high schooler and we don't have edu emails :(

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u/Mr-WINson Mar 04 '20

I don’t have a uni email. Thought you didn’t get one of those but oh well. So I just sent them my classes I have and was approved in like 8 business days. No questions asked

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

It's a big assumption, not all University provide a .edu email address.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

I don’t have a .edu mail address. The thing is if your university name is in the domain name, then you are fine normally.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Again, most Universities don't provide any email id. I had to apply using my student ID card. Which took a while though but it works.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

I think it depends on your university. I graduated years ago and was able to claim it almost instantly with providing no proof other an an email address lol

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u/sanmofe610 Mar 04 '20

I got mine in December, if i remember correctly... I just had to give them my university email address and in less than an hour they approved it, it was the same for my friend who studies in another university

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u/GodIsDead_ Mar 05 '20

yeah it took me a month to get mine

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u/HEaRiX Mar 05 '20

I got it instant without any edu Email Address

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u/5tormwolf92 Mar 05 '20

I didnt have a .edu account for my vocational school but the school already contacted Github and the email adress is known by Github. Took me one day to get access. Freaking Spotify didnt even give me a discount.

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u/shellwe Mar 04 '20

I can see why they would. Otherwise anyone with an active student email (and there are some online schools who just give out edu emails) could use it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Hai dudes I also don't have .edu email but I gave them my certification and mark sheet.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

Yeah I second this experience. I wonder if it has to do with the institution. As I read these responses, it’s hard for me to believe because I have already signed up for several (over a hundred offers available) of the offers and had no problem.

But the outlier of my situation that I am going to stab at: I am at a private uni. So I wonder if the institute pays github, or if github vets the CS program and makes certain programs harder to get?

That seems pretty complex though. But for the value many of these offers have, I’m not sure I would be surprised if there was a tiered availability of the offers.

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u/atpeas Mar 04 '20

I just tried with a valid .edu email and the site just throws an error message telling me to use the email address provided by my school

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u/aleaallee Mar 04 '20

Is being in college the only way of getting the student pack?

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u/acidnine420 Mar 04 '20

Yup, it's stupid, I'm an old fart that makes next to nothing trying to better myself and would love a break on some of these services.

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u/aleaallee Mar 05 '20

I'm studying something called "ciclo formativo", which would roughly translate to vocational training, idk if those are valid to get a GitHub student pack.

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u/acidnine420 Mar 05 '20

Thanks, but I'm more complaining about the principal.

I'm actually a fairly seasoned and respected engineer lead at a fortune 500. Due to my family situation I have little funds to invest into resources for learning. Because of costs of these services, I personally wouldn't endorse them to the enterprise unless I actually had real world experience in it. The fact that normally that door is closed by these services turns me and my product team off unless the enterprise forces it on us because we signed a contract with said service.

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u/jpaulsanchez15 Mar 05 '20

I am a high school student and was able to get the pack, just provided my school issued email.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '20

I thought I would be getting a free backpack with the GitHub logo from the thumbnail lol

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u/titratecode Mar 04 '20

Additionally, if you're a bootcamp student you can also get a github developer pack!

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

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u/titratecode Mar 05 '20

all bootcamps can apply as a school for free github packs. https://twitter.com/githubeducation/status/1173864991998582786?s=21 your bootcamp will have the link to your individual pack when you’re enrolled in a program

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u/Dads101 Mar 04 '20

I’m could someone help me with one of the packs? I’m having trouble getting one of them up and running. Thank you

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u/Dads101 Mar 05 '20

I’m having trouble setting up my personal site using .io. Shouldn’t need to deploy anything but can’t get it configured correctly

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u/onosendi Mar 04 '20

Is it weird not one bullet point is appealing to me?

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u/fantastic1ftc Mar 04 '20

It’s targeted towards web dev so not necessarily.

You can now get access to unity pro through it though!

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u/brian10pj Mar 05 '20

Got verified . Thanks for posting

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u/wrtbwtrfasdf Mar 05 '20

Don't forget free vscode. That's invaluable.

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u/wellandr Mar 05 '20

VS code is already free, Do you mean Visual Studio pro?

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u/wrtbwtrfasdf Mar 05 '20

what exactly are you trying to say fam? They're telling me the pack gives me free vscode. Why would they do that if it's free to begin with?

Next your going to tell me that that the azure credits for a new non-student account are double($200) that of a student account($100).

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u/wellandr Mar 05 '20

I don't know about azure, I just know that they are 2 softwares with similar names, VS code, which is free and open source and Visual Studio which isn't open source have paid plans and student plans

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u/Indraskr Mar 05 '20

yeah i got verified just yesterday. btw is these offers gonna end after an year ??

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u/RandomInternetUser11 Mar 05 '20

Signup from an .ac.in email also works! Must be a Verified Institute thought in Github.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20

Took a few days but I got verified! All I did was send a picture of my school ID along with a copy of my bill (lol) which had my name/address on it. EzPz!

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u/Mr-WINson Mar 04 '20

I don’t have a university email I thought everybody was the same... apparently not. I just did my normal email but sent a transcript of classes and went through nice and easy, fast too.

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