Top Free Things for Students in Tech
Get free, or discounted items for being a student!
You might not know, but there are a ton of free resources for students that many people have available to them. In this article, I am going to round up some of the best deals for students. If I miss anything, please let me know!
GitHub Student Developer Pack:
This pack assembled by GitHub has a multitude of discounts and free things. The only thing you need is proof of being a student. This can be a school email, or other identification like a Student ID.
$110 of bonus Amazon Web Services credit.
Toy around with everything from Machine Learning, IOT, and even Serverless Computing!
Bitnami Business 3 Plan (normally $49/month) free for one year
Bitnami is the industry leader in application packaging. They have automated packaging, deploying and maintaining applications.
Carto Free Account Upgrades with increased database storage, real time data, Location Data Services Credits, and premium features for 2 years.
Carto is an open and powerful platform for spatial data analysis, visualization, and application creation.
Access to Figure Eight
Use the crowd-sourced platform to help improve your AI, and make it run better.
Datadog Pro Account, including 10 servers. Free for 2 years.
Datadog provides cloud-based infrastructure monitoring
Digital Ocean $50 in platform credit for new users
Digital Ocean is a cloud computing platform that manages your app’s infrastructure.
Free one-month membership ($149 value) to Flatiron School Online Coding Bootcamp
Flatiron School is a proven Coding Bootcamp, with notable alumni.
GitHub Unlimited private repositories (normally $7/month) while you are a student.
GitHub offers repository storage and hosting with the Git file system.
GitKraken Pro account for 1 user. Free for 1 year (normally $60/year).
GitKraken is a multi platform Git GUI client, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Hackhands $25 in platform credit
Hackhands is a service that offers programming help 24/7.
NameCheap One year SSL certificate (normally $9/year), One year domain name registration on the .me TLD (normally $18.99/year).
Domain service with affordable registration, hosting, and domain management
SendGrid Student plan 15K with free emails/month (normally limited to 200 free emails/day) while you’re a student.
“Email service trusted by developers and marketers for time-savings, scalability, and delivery expertise.”
500,000 events/month with unlimited projects and members while you’re a student with Sentry
Sentry is “open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time.”
Waived transaction fees on first $1000 in revenue processed with Stripe
Stripe is a banking and online payment software platform for online businesses.
Complete access to the suite of tools for native mobile apps. Unlimited access to the platform free for 6 months with Taplytics
“Taplytics is an intelligent customer experience cloud specializing in turning first-time users into lifetime customers through magical moments”
One month of access to a web development course by Thinkful
Thinkful is an online web development course in HTML/CSS/JavaScript with online office hours.
One year free of the Transifex Starter plan, a $99/month value. Get 50,000 hosted words, unlimited projects, and access to translation partners.
Transifex is an online localization platform for your projects.
Private builds with Travis CI (normally $69/month) while you’re a student
Testing for your GitHub projects, to help with security and functionality.
Unreal Engine while you’re a student
“A complete suite of game development tools for PC, console, mobile, web and VR”
Microsoft Imagine
Get free Microsoft tools, by verifying with a school email or an access code.
Microsoft Azure with Free Cloud Services
“Develop in the cloud at no cost with Azure App Services, Notification Hubs, SQL database, and more.”
Microsoft Virtual Academy
“A large collection of cross-platform learning delivered by Microsoft people and partners to help you build your technical skills and advance your career.”
Free 3-Month Trial for Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition
“Powerful virtualization solution for running Windows and Mac apps side-by-side, without rebooting.”
PHP Tools Plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio
“Provides smart code completion, quick navigation, syntax error checking, debugging support, an integrated PHP manual, and much more.”
Pluralsight
“ Rich collection of online training courses delivered by world-renowned industry developers.”
SQL Server 2017 Developer Edition
“ Comprehensive datacenter capabilities for mission-critical database, business intelligence, and advanced analytics workloads.”
Visual Studio Code
“Modern lightweight code editor. A free, powerful code editor for Linux, MacOS, and Windows.”
Visual Studio Community 2017
“ A free, fully-featured, and extensible IDE for creating modern applications for Windows, Android, and iOS, as well as web applications and cloud services.”
Visual Studio for Mac
“ A mobile first, cloud first IDE. Made for the Mac. Everything you need for mobile, cloud, and Mac development.”
Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro
“ Extends Windows 8.1 to a range of industry devices and powerful line-of-business apps where security and reliability are paramount.”
Windows Server 2016
“ Delivers global-scale cloud services for any datacenter or cloud.”
Windows Store Developer Account
“ Publish your apps on the Store for free with a special student registration code.”
Wintellect Now
“ Courses on the latest new technologies authored by some of the most respected names in the industry delivered directly to your desktop or mobile device.”
Xamarin Studio Community Edition
“ Use C# to code and deploy Android, iOS, and Windows apps in Visual Studio.”
