After procrastinating for a week, Iām finally applying for GitHubās Student Developer Pack. It took almost a week for me to answer a simple question.
How do you plan to use GitHub?
Itās a simple question, and I know how do I plan to use GitHub, but for some reasons, I wasnāt able to craft my words, the way I wanted to. Every day, I opened my text editor, wrote a bunch of sentences, and closed it down.
It wasnāt hard for me to write the answer, but I procrastinated, and now I know how does it feel to do something in a week when in reality, you can complete the same thing in around 30 minutes or so.
It took around 10 minutes to write, and the next 20 minutes were spent thinking if what Iāve written makes sense or not.
Hereās what I wrote and sent -
Iāve been using GitHub for a while now. I still remember when I created my account but had absolutely no idea of anything that was happening. I indeed wiped out my ~/home with
git rmbecause I was having a hard time understanding Git and GitHub.
It took me some time, but I understood whatās the work and purpose of GitHub, and how important it is for people like me. If it wasnāt GitHub, I might not have been aware of Programming and Open Source. I love to code, and I genuinely care about FOSS.
GitHub Student Developer is important to me. Iām focused on developing better things than what Iāve built in the past. As a student, I donāt get much time to do a lot of things, so itās not entirely possible for me to pay for the features that GitHub is providing to the students.
The initial goal is to make progress towards becoming a better developer while contributing to the Open Source as much as I can. So, hereās how Iām planning to use GitHubās Student Developer Pack -
1) Use Bootstrap Studio, Canva, Iconscout, Icons8, Weglot to learn and build user interfaces and improve my fronted skills.
2) Use Datadog, AWS, Azure, mnx.io to learn, understand, and experiment with the cloud.
3) Use Flatiron School, Thinkful, Covalence, Go Rails, next.tech, Interview Cake, One Month, Frontend Masters, Educative to improve my skills as a programmer. Most importantly, I want to build sensible projects, write tutorials, and make useful contributions to open source.
I can go on and on, but I think these are some basic ways of how Iām planning to use GitHub.
Thatās it. I think it makes sense, I guess. Although I donāt know if other people provide such a brief answer while applying, for me, it was different, so I wrote what was going on top of my mind.
UPDATE
Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 3:15 AM
I just got the email from GitHub, and Iām very happy. I donāt have much to say. Iāll just check everything, and then Iāll probably get some sleep.
