Do you know that GitHub provides students with the best real-world developer tools and free training such as Jetbrains IDE, Namecheap domain, and DigitalOcean credits? Introducing GitHub Student Developer Pack , your savior during your student developer's life.

What is GitHub Student Developer Pack?

It is a student offer to access real-world tools to ease their developer job for free. Some offers provided by the pack are JetBrains IDEs, Name.com domains, Educative courses, and so on.

For more details you may refer to this link: GitHub Student Developer Pack Offers

Why do you need to claim GitHub Student Developer Pack?

As mentioned above, you can access all the real-world tools for free by claiming this pack. Let me list out some of my favorite tools from the pack.

StreamYard

Although we are slowly shifting from a virtual to a physical event, it is still a good idea to have a virtual event to gather people from all around the world. Therefore, you need a good streaming app to live stream your event to Youtube or even Facebook live. You can use StreamYard to achieve all of these. Normally, you need to pay $20 USD per month to use the basic plan. By having the GitHub Student Developer Pack, you can have the basic plan for FREE.

Jetbrains IDEs

One of the best tools that the pack offered I think would be Jetbrains IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA. Jetbrains IDEs is a wonderful IDE that has many built-in features that can ease your development. One of my favorite IDE is IntelliJ IDEA for Java. For USM students, you would use this IDE for your CAT201 Java Project. Although you can use the free version, the paid version provides more features and you can save more time to develop your app. In normal circumstances, you have to spend $59.90 USD per month to purchase the Intellij IDEA IDE paid version a.k.a IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.

By having the GitHub Student Developer Pack, you can have the Intellij IDEA Ultimate for FREE.

Not other IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, you can have other choices for you to download for FREE using this pack. Above is the list of Jetbrains IDEs you can claim.

There are still many benefits that you can claim from the pack. I leave the rest for you to explore.

How to claim GitHub Student Developer Pack

In this section, I will show you how to claim this pack step by step.

1. Make a GitHub account if you don't have one yet.

2. Once you have a verified GitHub account, go to​ GitHub Student Developer Pack page and click Sign up for Student Developer Pack.

3. Go to individuals and click Get student benefits.

4. GitHub will ask you to sign in and use the same email you created in the first step to log in.

5. After you sign in, you will be redirected to this page:

6. Once you qualify for this pack, you will need to complete some steps and provide information such as your university email to your GitHub account, providing university name, and your reason to use GitHub. To add your university email to GitHub, you need to click + Add an email address option.

7. Upon clicking the following text should appear, click the "here" hypertext to open the new window to add your university email address.

8. After clicking “here” you should be redirected to a new page, here you need to add your university email (xxx@student.usm.my) and click Add. GitHub will send a verification email to your account, make sure you verify it.

9. Once you verified your newly added student email, go back to the previous page and enter the remaining information which is What is the name of your school? , and How do you plan to use GitHub? Upon completion click the Submit your information.

(Note: you might have your university email instead of “+ Add email address”)

10. Once you have filled out the form and submitted your request, all you have to do now is wait. The GitHub team is pretty busy, so they may take a few days to respond to your request - it may take up to one week for them to accept or deny your application.

(Note: you will see this at here if your application is approved.)

Congratulations, you had claimed your GitHub Student Developer Pack.