Company
Date Published
Author
Joe Nash
Word count
545
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The GitHub Student Developer Pack has introduced new tools to enhance project development for students, offering them for free to facilitate a productive start to the school year. Algolia provides a powerful search functionality API, offering 100,000 records and one million monthly indexing operations without charge, allowing developers to enhance their app's discoverability. GitKraken Glo offers a task tracking solution, syncing in real-time with GitHub Issues to manage class assignments and group projects efficiently, with a free one-year subscription. Heroku, a platform as a service, supports web application development with its cloud-based environment, offering a Hobby Dyno for small projects for up to two years, enabling students to focus on development rather than DevOps. Additionally, JetBrains offers a suite of integrated development environments for various programming languages, granting students a free year-long subscription to all its desktop tools and the option to renew the license for free as long as they are students.