Sign Up for GitHub Student Developer Pack

If you're a student, you have an unfair advantage -- lots of free stuff available for you!

One of the coolest free things out there is the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Just look what's in there (as of August 2026):

1. All JetBrains IDEs (worth ~$300/year).
2. A lot of cloud credits: $100 in Azure, roughly two years of Heroku. That's how you practice deployment (see Tip 40) without paying.
3. Free domain from Namecheap for a year (yourname.me looks better than yourname.vercel.app).
4. GitHub Pro, which gives you some goodies for private repos and more Actions minutes for your runners.
5. Learning subscriptions, including DataCamp, Educative, and many others. The list there is actually long -- you can learn a lot if you space it out smartly and don't sign up for everything at the same time.

Applying is easy (you need a school email or some enrollment proof), and approvals typically take about 72 hours.