GitHub is giving away $200,000 worth of perks, All For FREE
Perks Like Free courses, Free Domain, and Free Credits!
Ritesh, my friend, was getting into cloud computing, He watched tutorials and took notes, but little did he know that he could gain access to a fully-fledged cloud console to practically implement those skills and enhance his learning experience, all for free. This realization inspired me to write this article.
Wait a Minute,
Are you into cloud computing?
Then, Github Offers You:
Microsoft Azure Service ($100 Credit)
Free access to 25+ Microsoft Azure cloud services plus $100 in Azure credit.
Validity: 1 Year
DigitalOcean ($200 Credit)
Free $200 in credit to spend on the DigitalOcean Cloud Platform.
Heroku ($156 Credit)
Free $13 per month for 12 months, a total of $156 Credit.
Termius (Free Subscription)
Free Termius Pro ($10) & Termius Team ($20) Subscription.
Termius is SSH client and terminal.
Datadog Cloud Monitoring
Pro Account, including 10 servers. Free for 2 years.
Netwise.
Free single-unit server colocation package free for 12 months.
New Relic
Free New Relic Subscription Worth $300/Month For 4-5 Years.
Travis CI
It is a Continuous Integration Platform: Private builds for free.
Are you into Web Development?
Then, Github Offers You:
Top Level Domain Names & SSL Certs,
.me
.tech
.live
are pretty useful to get started on your journey into Web Development.Validity: 1 Year
JetBrains Subscription Worth $289
Get Your Hands on professional desktop IDEs: IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and more.
BrowserStack (Free access)
Test your web apps with BrowserStack's Real Device Cloud, which gives you instant access to 2000+ browsers and real iOS and Android devices.
MongoDB ($50 Credit & Certification)
$50 in MongoDB Atlas Credits, plus access to MongoDB Compass and MongoDB University including free certification valued at $150.
Twilio ($50 Credit)
$50 in Twilio API credits, use Twilio APIs to add capabilities like voice, video, and messaging to your applications.
FrontendMasters (Free Premium Courses)
Free 6-month access to all courses and workshops.
Honeybadger
Error Tracking & Application Monitoring.
Free Small account for 1 year.
AstraSecurity (Free Pro Plan)
Security suite for your website - firewall, malware scanner.
Free Astra Pro Plan for 6 months worth $144.
Blackfire's Code Performance Measurement Tool
Free Profiler subscription worth €348/Year.
Pageclip
A server for your static websites and HTML forms: Free basic plan.
Polypane
A powerful browser and developer tool.
Free 1 Year Worth $116.
Sentry
Track errors in every language, framework, and library.
Free 500,000 events/month with unlimited projects and members.
Vaadin
It is the best open-source Java framework for building Progressive Web Applications. Free Pro subscription license.
Themeisle
Free year of Neve Agency WordPress theme.
Although more benefits could be listed, I have carefully selected and shared some highly practical ones with you. I don't want to risk boring you by going on and on about it!
Wanna Power Up Your Productivity?
GitHub has a few things for you,
Dashlane Password Manager
Cloud-based password manager: Free 6-month subscription.
PomoDone (Free 2-Year Subscription)
With PomoDone, hack and track your time and boost your productivity by applying the Pomodoro technique to your workflow. Eliminate distraction, sharpen focus and prevent burnout.
HazeOver: Distraction Dimmer
Get focused while working on your projects or studying with HazeOver for Mac. Free app license, including minor updates.
Free Access To Awesome Courses!
FrontendMasters (Recommended)
Free 6-month access to all courses and workshops.
DataCamp: Premium Data Science Courses
Free 3-month individual subscription
Learn From World's Top Data Scientists.
Hands-on Practical Lab.
Interactive exercises and short videos.
OneMonth
Learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Python in just 30 days!
Free 30-day One Month subscription.
InterviewCake
Free Access to the full coding interview prep course for 3 weeks.
GoRails
Tutorials for web developers learning Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Turbolinks, Stimulus.js, Vue.js, and more.
Free access to all videos and lessons for 12 months.
SymfonyCasts
Master Symfony and PHP with video tutorials and code challenges.
Free 3-month subscription.
Along with all these benefits, you get free access to GitHub Co-pilot, GitHub Code Spaces and GitHub Community Exchange. BTW, I love community exchange!
What's the catch?
All these amazing perks are part of the GitHub Education: Student Developer Pack! You can avail of all of them FREE If you are an eligible student.
Prerequisites:
You should have a university/college email ID.
Examples:
xxxx@student.csn.edu
orxxxx@sveri.co.in
(If your college doesn't provide you with any; you can use your own email address.)
You should have a valid college/university Identity Card.
It should have your course tenure.
Example:
Once the prerequisites have been met, continue.
Goto This Link: Click Here
Select Your College From Drop Down Menu.
Upload Your College Identity Card.
Done! Wait For Sometime, You will receive a welcome mail from GitHub; It usually takes a few minutes.
Final Words
So we came to the end of this blog, and I hope that newbies will now make use of these advantages and boost their developer journey. Please write your feedback, criticism, suggestions, and ideas in the comment section!
Thank You Kunal Kushwaha & #WeMakeDevs.
This is my first blog ever, and I want to thank Kunal Kushwaha, for helping me start writing and break the pattern of procrastination.
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