It’s harder to score student discounts on programming tools now that many of them are subscription services, but GitHub has just launched a bundle that could make it far less expensive to get cracking. Its new Student Developer Pack gives you free access to the kind of tools you’d typically need to get a serious coding project off the ground, including the Unreal game engine, cloud hosting and GitHub’s own code repository service. How much you get for free varies. Some partners simply offer credit, while others will give you a subscription — in a few cases, for as long as you’re still a student. The hope is that you’ll like the tools enough to pay for them later, of course, but it’s hard to knock an offer that leaves you with fewer school-related bills.
