When you go to college your most likely given a .edu email, this email address is your key to thousands of dollars worth of free software now that you're a student!
GitHub Student Developer
You get all of this for free! (Hint: click "GitHub Student Developer")
- Atom (Text Editor, free)
- Bitnami: Business 3 (Cloud apps, $49/month)*
- CrowdFlower + $50 credit (Data mining, $2,500/month)
- DigitalOcean (Cloud Hosting, $100 credit)
- DNSimple (DNS Managment, $3/month)**
- GitHub Micro (5 Private Repos, $7/month)
- HackHands (24/7 Programming Support, $25 credit)
- Namecheap (.me domain, $9/year)*
- Namecheap (SSL cert, $9/year)*
- Orchestrate (Database API, $49/month)
- Screenhero (Screensharing, $9.99/month)
- SendGrid (Email SAAS, $4.95/month)*
- Stripe (Payment System, $1,000 credit)
- Tracvis CI (Cont. Integration Platform, $69/month)
- Unreal Engine 4 (Game Dev Tools, $19/month)
*One Year
**Two Years
JetBrains Dev Tools
- ReSharper (Productivity tool for .NET)
- dotTrace (.NET Performace Profiler)
- dotCover (.NET Code Coverage Tool)
- dotMemory (.NET Memory Profiler)
- IntelliJ IDEA (Java IDE)
- RubyMine (Ruby on Rail IDE)
- PyCharm (Python/Django IDE)
- CLion (C/C++ IDE)
- PhpStorm (PHP IDE)
- WebStorm (JavaScript IDE)
- AppCode (Objective-C IDE)
AutoDesk
Way too many to mention, pretty much everything AutoDesk offers is free to students
- Inventor (Mechanical CAD)
- Maya (3D Modeler)
- 3ds Max (3D Modeler)
- AutoCad (CAD)
- Fusion 360 (Tool combining design with collaboration)
- Revit (BIM tools)
- Much, much more!
This isn't all there is, there are tons of other software out there free or discounted to students.