With your esprit account, you can have many paid tools
from GitHub’s pack designed especially for students:
GitHub Student pack which contains 100+ tools and
from JetBrains which has a pack contains a variety of
professional IDE’s (Integrated Development Editors) and
visual studio extensions for free.
Note: Teachers can also benefit from these packs
For simplicity, I have classified the tools in GitHub’s pack
to eleven categories:
1. Web-dev tools
2. AI tools
3. Learning platforms
4. Extensions
5. Password managers
6. IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service)
7. DB’s (Databases)
8. IDE’s
9. Deployment platforms
10. Organisation
11. Services
In this table below, you can see the tools provided in this
pack, their categories, a little description about every tool
and the benefits of every tool included in this pack.
Note: I didn’t put all the tools in this pack, I picked the
famous ones, you can check the full list on:
[Link]
Name Category Description Benefits
GitHub AI tools An extension Free access to
Copilot which provides Copilot while you
auto completion of are a student
the code
DeepNote AI tools A cloud-based Free usage of
data notebooks plan team which
compatible with includes
Jupiter built for unlimited team
collaborations members,
projects, basic
machines up to
5GB RAM and
2vCPU and
premium
integration with
30-days revision
history
JetBrains IDE A collection of paid Free access to
IDEs their student
pack while
studying. (see
the section of
JetBrains to have
a better idea
about the IDE’s)
Visual studio IDE An open-source Offering packs
code IDE famous for its for developing
simplicity and java and .Net
customization
using extensions
Bootstrap Web-dev Powerful tool to Free licence to
studio tools/IDE create web-apps this tool while
using Bootstrap you are a student
framework
Polypane Web-dev Powerful browser Free usage of
tools and developer tool polypane
which makes individual plan
developing web for 1 year
apps and websites
easier
Browser Stack Web-dev Used to test web Free Automate
tools apps with an Mobile Plan for 1
instant access to parallel and 1
2000+ browsers, user for 1 year
IOS and android
devices
LambdaTest Web-dev Same description Free LambdaTest
tools as BrowserStack Live Plan for 1
year
NameCheap Deployment A cheap 1 year domain
Platforms registration, name
hosting and registration on
domain .me TLD
management
[Link] Deployment Specialised in Free .LIVE
Platforms Domains, domain name,
DigitalOcean privacy
hosting… protection and
SSL certificate
Heroku Deployment Famous for it’s 13$ USD credit
Platforms flexibility, easy-to- for 24 months
use platform to
deploy, run and
manage apps
GitHub Pages Deployment Host your website One site per
Platforms directly from GitHub account
GitHub and
organization+
unlimited project
sites
Microsoft IASS Full access to Free access to
Azure Microsoft Azure 25+ Microsoft
cloud services and Azure cloud
learning resources services and
100$ in Azure
credit without
credit card
DigitalOcean IASS Cloud hosting 200$ credit for 1
platform year
GitHub IASS Cloud-based, Free pro level
codespaces secure, and access to
configurable Codespaces to
development use it anywhere.
environment
DataDog IASS Cloud-based Free pro account
infrastructure t for 2 years
monitoring which includes
ten servers.
Educative Learning A platform which 6 months free
platform contains access with 70
interactive hands- practical courses
on labs, guided which covers hot
tutorials and topics like
instant coding with python, web
browser-based dev,…
playgrounds
Codédex Learning A new learn-to- 6 months of
platform code platform for Codédex club
Gen Z which and a premium
contains courses membership for
in Python, HTML, free
CSS, JavaScript,
react, Git and
GitHub
DataCamp Learning Learning AI/data Free 3-month
platform science from individual
world’s top data subscription for
scientists and students.
helping companies
and individuals
make better use of
data
Frontend Learning Learning in-depth Free 6-monhs
Masters Platforms about JavaScript, access to all
[Link] and courses and
frontend workshops
engineering
courses
Scrimba Learning Learning frontend 1 month of full
Platforms interactively access to
Scrimba’s pro
courses,projects
and coding
challenges
Learning Like LeetCode, Free access to 20
[Link] Platforms prepares for coding interview
coding interview question
One Month Learning Learn HTML, CSS, Free 30-day
Platforms JavaScript and subscription
Python in 30 days
InterviewCake Learning Providing practical Access to full
Platforms questions, data coding interview
structures, prep for 1 week
algorithms
reference pages,
cheat sheets…
GoRails Learning Learn Ruby and it’s Free access to all
Platform framework Ruby on videos and
Rails, lessons for 12
JavaScript,[Link], months
…
Thinkful Learning Learning 1 month of
Platform fundamentals of access to web
web dev dev courses
MongoDB DBs No-SQL database, 150$ MongoDB
famous for its Atlas credit and
flexibility and 150$
scalability certification from
MongoDB
University
SQLGate IDE Simple and Access to most
powerful IDE for of standard
SQL databases subscription
features for 1
year
PopSQL IDE Modern and Free Premium
collaborative SQL subscription to
editor PopSQL
GitLens Extensions Enhances the IDE Free GitKraken
with Git Pro licence
visualizations, which enables
commit graph… access to
GitLens and the
entire GitKraken
DevEX platform
GitKraken Service Most popular Git Same benefits as
client for GitLens
windows,mac and
linux with a GUI
and terminal
interface
GitHub pro Service Collaboration, Free GitHub pro
code review and
code management
Terminus Service An SSH client Free access to all
which works on Terminus Pro and
desktop and team features
mobile and
provides a secure
sync to all devices
Arduino Service Open -source Free 6-months in
electronics Arduino Cloud
platform famous
for it’s hardware
and software
[Link] Service Automating email Free essential
test with powerful plan
API
Mailgun Service Send, receive and 20K free email
track email with a and 100 free
powerful API email validations
per month up to
12 months
Travis CI Service Continuous Private builds for
Integration free
platform for open
source and private
projects
Adafruit Service Same description One year of
as Arduino Adafruit IO+
Sentry Service Tracking errors in 50K errors,100K
every language, transactions,1GB
framework and attachments,500
library replays and team
features for 1
year
Visme Service All-in-one platform 3 free months
for creating access to
engaging and Visme’s Starter
interactive plan
presentations,
visual documents,
data visualizations,
short videos…
1Password Password Keeps all the 1 year access to
manager important 1Password
informations safe including
at your fingertips 1Password
developer tools
Dashlane Password Cloud-based Dashlane
manager password manager password
manager
premium free for
6 months
Notion Organisation A space when you Free access to
can write, plan, notion education
think and run an plan with
entire company additional AI
responses
Notion Organisation Templates for A collection of
Template notion notion templates
Collection for free (CS
course
dashboard,
building
portfolios…)
PomoDone Organisation Platform to use Free PomoDone
pomodoro lite plan for 2
technique to the years
workflow to boost
your productivity
HazeOver Organisation Beneficial for Free app licence
focusing on
studying for MAC
To get this pack, you need to follow these steps:
1. Create your account GitHub by visiting GitHub's
official website with your esprit account and make
sure to:
. Activate two-authentication factor
. Include your full name as in your identity card in your
profile
. Add your billing address: This includes your full name
as in your identity card
2. Go to GitHub Student Developer Pack - GitHub
Education and click on Sign up for your student pack
3. Login with your GitHub account that you have created
recently
4. You will be redirected to this page:
Click on continue, then you will have a page which
requires you to upload you Student Card or any
equivalent document. Currently, we don’t have this card
but you can reach to the administration and request a
certificate of enrolment (Fiche inscription) and then take
a picture of it and upload it. You need to wait from 3 to 10
days, you will receive an email from them saying that you
are accepted, and you can enjoy your benefits!
This table below shows the different IDEs and
extensions covered in their student pack and their
use cases.
IDE Use Cases
Aqua -Test automation with
Selenium,Cypress,PlayWright…
CLion -Development in C/C++
Note: CLion uses CMake to
generate the .exe and needs
more configuration to generate
.O files but CodeBlocks uses
directly the compiler to
generate .O and .exe
DataGrip SQL queries with different
databases like
MySQL,MongoDB,Redis…
DataSpell Data analysis with SQL and R
GoLand GO development with support
for Python, TypeScript,
JavaScript and bash
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate -Java development especially
Web dev with Spring Boot,
Jakarta/EEE
-Kotlin development
Note: Android studio is based
on IntelliJ IDEA
PhpStorm PHP development with Laravel,
Blade, Symphony with support
for Python, JavaScript,
TypeScript,
Tailwindcss and SQL
PyCharm Python development and data
science
Resharper/Resharper -Extensions for Visual Studio:
C++ 1. Resharper : C# (.NET)
2. Resharper C++ : For modern
C++ and Unreal engine
development
Rider C# development with its
frameworks like .NET,
[Link]…. and F# (F# is a
programming language known
for functional programming
and is used in scientific
computing, financial modelling
and data analysis)
RubyMine Ruby development with
support of different
frameworks like Ruby on rails,
Rubocop, Hotwire, RSpec…
RustRover Rust development (Rust is a
programming language known
for its memory safety and
based on ownership/borrowing
model and is being used in
embedded systems, web
development…)
WebStorm Web development using
JavaScript/TypeScript with
integration of EsLint, Prettier
and Tailwindcss
DotCover/Dot DotCover: .NET unit test runner
Memory / DotTrace and Code Coverage Tool
DotMemory: .NET memory
profiler
DotTrace : .NET Performance
profiler
Note: These are extensions in
Visual Studio
You can apply using your esprit account in the university
email address,with your ISTIC/ITIC card in ISTIC/ITIC
membership or with your GitHub student pack in GitHub
section. I will take for example university email addresses:
1. Write your esprit account and write your full name as in
your identity card
2. An email will be sent to you from JetBrains with a link to
follow other steps:
3. Accept the aggrement
4. After all these steps,you will receive this email:
They will ask you to create a JetBrains account to link your
student pack so create it and enjoy your student pack !
Note:GitHub and JetBrains Student pack must be renewed
annually to benefit from their benefits as long as possible.
Sources:
. Free Educational Licenses - Community Support
([Link])
. GitHub Education documentation - GitHub Docs
If you have any questions or stuck in any steps, reach out
to GitHub and JetBrains.
Finally, I can say to all of you: Have an Octotastic day!