5 organizations that give college students a paid development tool
Hi Habr!
Today, many organizations arrange for students a kind of "action", allowing them to receive free software, or some kind of bonuses and privileges (and sometimes not from the organizations themselves, but from their partners).
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So, if you read this post, you are a university student and you have a desire to participate in the program (maybe not even one) of free access to various software and other buns from large organizations - please under the cat.
1. Student Developer Pack from GitHub
“For most students, the price of development tools can be prohibitive. That is why we created together with our partners the GitHub Student Developer Pack: we collected a lot of development tools in one place to give you the opportunity to study in practice. ”
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Package includes:
- Access to AWS cloud, free training and access to resources. Includes a subscription for 15 AWS credits, totaling $ 100-115;
- Install cloud applications in one click from Bitnami. Includes a subscription to the annual "Business 3" plan;
- Access to the crowdsourcing and enrichment platform for CrowdFlower data;
- Subscription for $ 50 in the cloud hosting DigitalOcean;
- Manage services and reliable DNS API "one click" from DNSimple. Subscription of a personal DNS plan for 2 years;
- Subscription for $ 25 in the service "live support for programmers" HackHands;
- Unlimited private repositories in GitHub, for the duration of your training;
- A set of Microsoft Azure cloud services and developer tools, including the Visual Studio IDE, again for the duration of your training;
- One free domain in the ".me" zone for a year from NameCheap, as well as a free annual SSL certificate for it;
- Developer account at the time of your training in Orchestrate, a database development service for "high-speed" applications;
- “Student Plan” for 15K free email per month at SendGrid, a reliable service for tracking transactions and marketing via email. The plan is available at the time of your training;
- Free transaction processing for up to $ 1000 from Stripe web and mobile payment reception service;
- Free access to private development in the “continuous development” hosting of Travis CI, for the duration of your training;
- Udacity Student Developer Pack to participate in the Nanodegree training program. Each month is given the opportunity to choose one of the training programs;
- UE4 is a complete set of tools for developing games on PCs, consoles, smartphones, VR devices, as well as for the browser. All this for your study.
2. Microsoft's DreamSpark
“Get free access to Microsoft’s professional development and design tools.”
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Package includes:
- Access to Microsoft Azure - a platform for cloud computing;
- Windows Server - the operating system for server content;
- Visual Studio Professional - IDE and other software development tools;
- Free registration in Windows Store and Marketplace;
- Microsoft Expression Studio - a package for developers and designers;
- Windows Embedded - an OS with low hardware requirements;
- SQL Server - Relational Database Management System
3. Creative Cloud from Adobe
"A complete collection of creative apps for PC and mobile devices, including more than 20 programs such as Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC, as well as your own portfolio site, paid fonts and 20 GB of cloud storage."
PS I want to note that this is not free, you only get a discount of up to 60%.
4. Professional Developer Tools from JetBrains
“Are you learning Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Objective-C or .NET?
Or maybe you are just planning to study? Get started right now with JetBrains professional developer tools. And most importantly: it's free. ”
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After registering as a student, you access the following tools:
- ReSharper- plugin for increasing the productivity of work in MVS;
- IDEA - IDE for development in many programming languages, including Java, JS, Python;
- AppCode - smart IDE for developers on iOS, OSX;
- CLion - cross-platform IDE for C / C ++ developers;
- RubyMine - IDE for Ruby on Rails developers;
- DataGrip - IDE for working with databases and SQL code;
- PHPStorm - IDE for PHP development;
- PyCharm is an excellent IDE for Python development & Django;
- WebStorm - Smart IDE for JavaScript Development
5. Education Community from Autodesk
"Autodesk offers free access to its software for students and teachers to help students prepare for professional activities."
UPD: Thanks to migeele for the tip:
Substance Designer and Substance Painter by Allegorithmic
“Students can get free licenses from the Substance Designer and Substance Painter apps. These are full versions of applications that are eligible for a free update throughout the year. ”
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/307102/
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