GitHub Education Discount - Free Stuff!

Github.com is a very powerful and useful tool. For those of you who don't know what GitHub is, it is a version control system. Version control allows you to keep your source code safe and incrementally test, publish and share code.  A free account is available but all the repositories are public. Eclipse and Visual Studio plugins are available. A micro subscription allows for 5 private repositories in addition to the public ones.

GitHub micro is usually $7/month but you can request an education discount. If you have setup an account previously with GitHub login and go to account settings emails and add the email address of your educational institution and click verify. You will need access to the email account to verify the email address.
While still logged in go to education.github.com and click request a discount. Enter you name, choose your verified educational institution email, Institution name, year of graduation and a brief outline of how you intend to use it. Github, upon qualification, will usually give you the micro plan free until graduation.
If you haven't set up GitHub what are you waiting for.

Simples!