Updated April 15, 2023
What is GitHub?
GitHub along with a host of IT giants have joined together in offering a set of their Tools and Services at a free Cost to the student community to bring out the talent in them, rope them early into the IT arena and shape their minds/careers at a young age. The tools and services include Desktop Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Domain and Web Hosting, Access to the cloud, Training in AWS cloud services, Collaboration with professionals, Azure cloud services to develop and host applications. Students with an age of 13 and more affiliated to a College or School are eligible to enroll and avail of this offer to mold their future. Students can build their application using Azure or AWS or DigitalOcean servers in the cloud and create highly secured SSL-based Websites through the GitHub environment. In this article let us, deep-dive, into the details.
How to use GitHub for Students?
GitHub along with its partners offers an excellent platform for students to tap their potential and prove themselves. Here are some of the use cases detailed below.
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Develop Impressive Projects
Students can make use of the facilities made available to them by GitHub and create an end-to-end project in an Open-source environment in their area of interest. They can do something innovatively that will be useful for developers. For example, they can try to create some alternate tools with more features as a replacement to the existing ones in data science, voice recognition, video matching, Natural language processing, etc,
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Publicize the work done
GitHub offers a perfect platform for students to showcase their work in public media. They can also elicit improvements to their work from the developer community. Their coding abilities, innovative skills, presentation power, and other skills will be visible to their future recruiters and it will speak a lot more than academic credentials in getting a plum placement.
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Contribute to Community
Students can contribute to the open-source community through the GitHub platform and demonstrate their skills to the developer community and get recognized even before they start their professional careers. Students have more avenues in AI, Data Science, and Blockchain to pursue their interests.
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Access to repos
GitHub holds a lot of useful information needed for students on their projects as well as in the academic curriculum. Students can refer to the repositories available abundantly in GitHub and get benefitted.
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Collaboration
GitHub provides a wonderful opportunity for students to collaborate with other project members, be it other students or professional developers. It teaches them the art of collaborative working, the power of teamwork, and many other soft skills.
How does it work?
Students will have to register with GitHub and get a login account and the e-mail id provided by the institution should be linked with this account. Students can log in to the Education pack using the account credentials and enter the details of their institutions and configure the services that will be used by them. Upon approval from the GitHub team, they can start working in GitHub
How it works for students?
Post getting login details and GitHub approvals, students can start their activities in:
- They can develop their own projects and invites others to improve it
- Information from many repositories can be accessed by them
- They can collaborate in many other projects as a team member
- Post their work on GitHub for others to view and appreciate it
- Join in any social group in GitHub and actively participate in interchanging information within the GitHub portal
How it works for Teachers?
Features of GitHub Classroom as part of GitHub Education platform are:
- Teachers can create a different workflow for assignments of students
- GitHub being a teacher facing tool generates the starter code sets the direction of the assignment
- Due dates are defined, milestones defined, dashboards, and other testing frameworks are set in the workflow
- The assignment or a course is started in the GitHub
- Measure the progress of the assignment as it progresses with the inputs from students
- Teachers can focus on their core teaching activities while the workflow reports the status of assignments and the dashboard displays the progress.
- While GitHub takes care of the follow-up activities, teachers can spend more time with students
- Teachers get a good insight into the finer activities of the students and everything progresses smoothly
- GitHub experts provide troubleshooting to overcome any issues
GitHub Student Developer Pack
This pack is part of the GitHub Education platform and the components in this platform are:
a. GitHub Student Developer Pack
b. GitHub Education Experts
c. GitHub Teacher Toolbox
d. GitHub Campus Advisors
e. GitHub Classroom
f. GitHub Campus Program
GitHub Student developer offers Tools and services for students at no cost which otherwise would cost them more money and it is beyond their reach. The list of tools offered under this developer pack is categorized IT domain-wise below.
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IT Domain |
Tools Offered |
Features |
| Developer
Tool |
Jetbrains | Desktop IDE |
| Bootstrap Studio | Desktop App to develop responsive web applications | |
| Internet
Of Things |
Adafruit | Open-source hardware and educational electronics |
| Netwise | Data center services on a turnkey basis | |
| Analytics &
Security |
Astra | Firewall, malware scanner |
| Codescene | Predictive analytics tool to detect business risks | |
| Design | Iconscout | Holds a lot of icons and stock images |
| Canva | Provide templates of graphics and designs | |
| Cloud | MS Azure | Offers cloud services and plenty of learning stuff. |
| New Relic | Platform to improve the quality of software | |
| Mobile
Technology |
Sofy | Automated testing with AI features |
| Termius | Synchronises data on all the devices in a secured manner | |
| Learning | Datacamp | Learning from the world top data scientists in building data fluency and using it |
| Next. tech | Teaches tech skills for building software from the browser | |
| Infrastructure & API | Mongo DB | Non-relational database to store big data as documents |
| Freshpaint | A good integrator tool |
GitHub Students Offer
GitHub apart from services from its own platform offers the services from others as detailed above. Such services are numerous and students will have to grab what they want before getting into any serious work. The worth of the offer is more than $200K and it is a very huge amount for a student.
Conclusion
GitHub provides wonderful opportunities by offering so many facilities to the student community and create a platform for them to nurture their talent and aspirations. Students of the current generations are a blessed lot and kudos to GitHub.
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