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Nathaniel Woodthorpe spent his summer as an Engineering Intern working on GitHub Classroom alongside the Education Team. In this post, he’ll share the features and updates he worked on for…

Bard College is not a technical research university. In fact, when students arrive on campus, most say they’ve had no experience with computer science. Professors Keith O’Hara and Sven Anderson…

Professor Chris Lupo has taught at California Polytechnic State University for eight years and recently revamped his upper-level Architecture course using GitHub Classroom. In this post, he shares his workflow…

School may be (almost) out for summer, but we’re still adding to the Student Developer Pack. Sentry is now offering error reporting to new and existing pack members—send up to…

Feedback is essential to the learning process. Input from an expert at the right time can make all the difference in a software project. In past programming classes, Professor John…

Mikaela Marciales, a junior at Lowell High School in San Francisco and member of the JROTC, reflects on her projects in AP computer science as equal parts expression and fun—in…

It’s almost Pride Month, and we’re rolling out the rainbow carpet a little early to announce a new shirt in the GitHub Shop, inspired by the LGBTQ tech community. After…

How Harvard, San Francisco State, and The College of New Jersey use GitHub in their courses As a teacher, you juggle the endless stream of student emails, faculty responsibilities, and…

Students don’t leave Ming Chow’s course until they are prepared to hold their own on an engineering team. Full stop. What’s required for those rigorous engineering roles? “Experience making tangible…

A course organized around users, not exams In his Startup Programming course at the University of Victoria, Alexey Zagalsky asks students to design products based on user needs. Working together…

Data science is a melting pot of disciplines: students from Anthropology to Political Science to Education all sign up for the same course. It’s a challenge to keep the material…

Stop by the Tap House Grill on Thursday March 9th, 2017 from 6 to 9PM. Photo CC-BY Tiffany Von Arnim The GitHub Education team is in town for SIGCSE, the…

For teachers it can be a challenge to get students the help they need exactly when they get stuck, especially in large courses. But when teachers use an automated testing…

Professor David J. Malan, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Harvard University, is dedicated to offering his students a robust learning experience. This post outlines how…

This week more than 350 Git enthusiasts convened in Brussels for Git Merge 2017, and hundreds more tuned in from around the world via live stream. The conference brought together…

CARTO is the newest addition to the GitHub Student Developer Pack. CARTO is a powerful open platform for discovering and predicting key insights underlying the world’s location data. It’s a…

Flatiron School has joined the Student Developer Pack to offer students one free month of their Community-Powered Bootcamp, a flexible online course in web development. The Community-Powered Bootcamp is a…

Brussels will play host to Git Merge 2017 in February, and planning is already well underway. We’re building Git Merge to be welcoming to and supportive of everyone in the…

GitKraken is now part of the Student Developer Pack. Students can manage Git projects in a faster, more user-friendly way with GitKraken’s Git GUI for Windows, Mac, and Linux. GitKraken…

Today is Veteran’s Day here in the United States, or Remembrance Day in many places around the world, when we recognize those who have served in the military. Today many…

Taplytics is now offering mobile testing to students in the Student Developer Pack. Taplytics helps mobile developers create great experiences through: A/B testing, push notifications, and custom analytics. As part…