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Sorry, I don't think I was clear. I'm not disputing the Bitbucket free service, I was just pointing out that Bitbucket do have a student account, and it's handl
by mcintyre1994 13y ago
Sorry, I don't think I was clear. I'm not disputing the Bitbucket free service, I was just pointing out that Bitbucket do have a student account, and it's handled automatically by you just adding your student Email to your account. I assumed (wrongly, perhaps?) that Github would use a similar system, since case by case seemed very odd for that.
I agree with what you're saying, though I hadn't thought about it - and it's also great that these courses are mentioning version control. That really should be a part of a CS curriculum, and it's great they're doing that, my university doesn't which I found quite surprising.
Anyway, sorry for the confusion, I just thought that Github would use the same process as Bitbucket to identify students.
- rz2k 13y agoGithub will automatically recognize your educational email account if you have an educational email account. The problem for people taking a Coursera class is that they might not be enrolled in any school. I don't think that many of those students need to upgrade to the Bitbucket student account where they get more than 5 users. It is pretty interesting how people are using version control in these classes. Here's one that distributes the assignments as a repository on Github[1] [1] https://github.com/uwescience/datasci_course_materials https://github.com/uwescience/datasci_course_materials