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Sure, but if it's against school policy, the school has the right to expel you. Coursera is not taking the public code down, the owner is, at the coercion of th
by mikecaron 14y ago
Sure, but if it's against school policy, the school has the right to expel you. Coursera is not taking the public code down, the owner is, at the coercion of the school. The student is making a value decision: continue the course or take my code down. If you can't play by the rules, you can't be in the game.
I think there's a unique opportunity for GitHub here. They could give an educational license to verified students in college/high-school/on-line schools. For the duration of their class, they can have as many private repos as they like. When the semester ends, you've got a week to grab your code before it goes public, like a free account. First, it would get students used to GitHub and they would clammer for it in the workplace because they love it so much; Second, it would position GH as a great supporter of education.
- jtbigwoo 14y agoWhen the semester ends, you've got a week to grab your code before it goes public, like a free account. I suspect this would catch on better if the repos were destroyed or stayed private. Professors reuse assignments year after year and wouldn't be too happy about public solutions to all their past assignments.
- Inufu 14y agoAt least in my university solutions to all past problems are posted anyway, we even have our own wiki for it. I imagine it's similar in other universities. (fwiw, I use Github exactly in this way, only with public repos)
- jasonkeene 14y agoGithub already offers free micro plan (5 private repos) for verified students. Unlimited private repos is a rather big hammer and might attract abuse. edit for link: https://github.com/edu https://github.com/edu
- winter_blue 14y agoThanks a lot for that! This has come really useful. I just finished up this summer, but my .edu address still works! This is awesome! :)
- DennisP 14y agoIf you're on Coursera there's a good chance you don't have a .edu address. Maybe Coursera should host private repos?
- vyrotek 14y agoBitBucket offers free private repos. https://bitbucket.org/plans https://bitbucket.org/plans Edit- Apparently BitBucket launched a new version of their site only moments after sharing this link. Looks great!
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