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.
21st Nov. 2:54 AM. I just submitted the docs
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.