Step-by-Step: Setting Up GitHub Student and GitHub Copilot as an Authenticated Student Developer
To become an authenticated GitHub Student Developer, follow these steps: create a GitHub account, verify student status through a school email or contact GitHub support, sign up for the student developer pack, connect to Copilot and activate the GitHub Student Developer Pack benefits. The GitHub Student Developer Pack offers 100s of free software offers and other benefits such as Azure credit, Codespaces, a student gallery, campus experts program, and a learning lab. Copilot provides autocomplete-style suggestions from AI as you code. Visual Studio Marketplace also offers GitHub Copilot Labs, a companion extension with experimental features, and GitHub Copilot for autocomplete-style suggestions. Setting up your GitHub Student and GitHub Copilot as an authenticated Github Student DeveloperStep-by-Step: How to Setup Copilot Chat in VS Code
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What is GitHub Codespaces and how can Students access it for free?
GitHub Codespaces is a new service that is free for anyone to develop with powerful environments using Visual Studio Code. In this post, we'll cover how you can make use of this new technology and take advantage of its most powerful features.Announcing GitHub Universe Cloud Skills Challenge!
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