Students crave hands-on experience, and companies look for developers who can contribute to existing projects. As the home to the world’s largest community of developers, we have the great responsibility…
Student developers are the future of software. Their taste in tools, habits around code, what they are learning–all of these drivers will shape tech, and culture in general, for years…
Now more than ever, students need opportunities to sustain their growth, using real tools, and an experienced understanding of how to work remotely and globally. With this new program, we’re helping to support the next generation of developers and the open source projects that companies use every day.
We’re sharing the #myfirstrepo contest winners along with how you can easily find your first repository.
Find out what we learned from nearly 16,000 students and 100 teachers who joined the GitHub Education program from 2014-2015.
Check out the Pins to Win competition winners and get inspiration to make your own winning GitHub profile.
Help students and peers get the most out of pull request drafting, revising, (re)reviewing, and merging with draft pull requests.
Make your portfolio shine with pinned gists.
Learn how teachers can help students use issues and pull requests.
Use Probot with GitHub Apps to save time in the classroom by automating tasks.
Major League Hacking (MLH) and GitHub have created resources for Hackathons to help developers get their applications up and running quicker: the Flask Hackathon Starter and the Node.js Hackathon Starter.
Using GitHub in the classroom leads to learning outcomes like preparation for the future and feeling part of a developer community.
This year’s Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) featured two sessions that will save you countless hours of marking and administrative friction: near-total automation and CS50’s tools helping students with their programs.
Spencer Kaiser, Principal Architect of Emerging Technology at American Airlines, shares his experience with the Student Developer Pack.
Learn how Dr. Shane Wilson saved time and boosted student performance with the help of GitHub Classroom and Travis CI.