Microsoft has joined the Student Developer Pack and some other GitHub Education news.

In continuation of the previous post . Visual Studio Community 2013 and the rest of the Dreamspark products are available to students as part of the Student Developer Pack . In addition, hackpledge.org offers an hour of help, and GitHub wants to listen to teachers. Details under the cut.

Osmicotic backpack became heavier

GitHub made the first addition to the Student Developer Pack since launch: Microsoft DreamSpark from Visual Studio. You can already download Visual Studio and register to access the Microsoft program for student developers - DreamSpark.
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With DreamSpark, students gain access to a wide range of Microsoft products, including software, the ability to publish apps and games for Windows and Xbox with Windows with a developer account in the store, and e-learning materials. All for free, which can not but rejoice.

Download Visual Studio and access DreamSpark using Developer Pack .

Free Mentoring Hour

News from the creators of hack.summit (). hack.pledge () is a network of 4,000 developers offering an hour of free online coaching for students to write code. Very important for those who did not have time to do laboratory work.

Get an hour of support at hackpledge.org .

We want to hear from teachers

GitHub “would be happy to hear all the ways GitHub is used in education” and campaigns to take part in the FIRST Robotics Competition , in which teams of schoolchildren can participate who, under the guidance of the computer scientists at the University of California at Berkeley and create their first robot. The goal of the competition is to interest school children in science and technology.

In addition, GitHub asks teachers to describe how GitHub is used in their professional activities. Write to ask here .

Upcoming GitHub Education Events
Visiting Dev Academy
Date: Mon Feb 16, 2015
Location: Wellington, New Zealand

Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)
Date: Wed Mar 4, 2015 to Sat Mar 7, 2015
Location: Kansas City, MO

Taiwan Campus Tour
Date: Fri Mar 13, 2015 to Tue Mar 31, 2015
Location: Taiwan

PS This post is based on a letter from GitHub, for more information you can go here . If you know of any such initiatives in Russia, write in the comments and, if you gather enough information, you can make another post.