Your Very Own Bundle of Joy! Time to rejoice Student Software Devs

Freebies! There’s probably no one on our green li’l earth who doesn’t like freebies or lighten up on any hint of the same. And if you live in a subcontinent in South east Asia which is known, globally, for its thriftiness, the word means even more! However, let me make it clear here itself – this freebie is one of it’s kind as its ONLY for STUDENTS (university going students mostly). GitHub Education has recently endeavored to give students developers a plethora of freebies and gifts which will, hopefully, help them become masters at their art.

Students, generically, are in any case hard pressed for cash as they have to subsist on the meager amounts they receive as pocket money. Further, this amount tends to evaporate when hanging out with friends – leaving student developers with even less cash to spend on programming services, accessories and requirements.

Whilst many may argue that programming “requirements” tend to be only knowing certain languages and programming methodologies, we at TechGlimpse beg to differ. Developers need to host certain apps on the cloud, purchase domain names and SSL certificates to ensure security and last, but certainly not the least, to purchase the proprietary development tools!

This is where GitHub Education steps in. GitHub has launched a bundle of numerous and assorted services and subscription which are made available once a student provides their educational institute registered mail (e.g. mine is $$$$$@sitpune.edu.in). The range and extent of the numerous services varies – some can be for 1 year or 2 years while others can extend to the entire duration of study. Further, all these tools give even a novice or budding programmer / developer the tools with which they can make their dream come true. Try and sample a few of these below-mentioned offers to get a better understanding –

As can be visible from the above snaps, students can end up availing services, which generally cost a couple of $1000 for the average use, in a completely free manner. Further, this magical “knapsack” includes access to 15 services / developer tools – including the likes of the highly acclaimed UNREAL ENGINE for game development, email infrastructure from SendGrid,  a Micro account at GitHub and others.

The aim behind offering this power-packed bundle, according to me,  is probably that once you like and get accustomed to these wondrous tools, you’ll end up paying for them as well, once you finish your studies.

So what are you waiting for ??!! Rush here to activate your account as well! And please do ONE favor – spread the love regarding the same for the world NEVER has enough software devs!