John Britton

Authored by GitHub Campus Expert @NickTikhonov. This tutorial will teach you how to write your first package for the Atom text editor. We’ll be building a clone of Sourcerer, a…

The student developer community is thriving thanks to hardworking student leaders like Josh Simpson. They organize tech talks, write tutorials, plan meetups, teach workshops, host office hours, produce hackathons, and…

To stimulate the growth and show our support of the student hacker community, we’ve partnered with Major League Hacking (MLH) to provide each new member hackathon with a $1,000 grant…

Following up on the release of the Ruby Nanodegree program that we co-created with Udacity, we’ve extended our partnership to offer GitHub Student Developer Pack members one month of free…

We love the Ruby programming language for its natural, human-focused design philosophy and think you will too. That’s why we teamed up with Udacity to bring you three new Ruby…

Celebrate open source this October by participating in Hacktoberfest, a month long festival of code organized by DigitalOcean and hosted on GitHub. How to participate Participation is simple: Choose any…

Classroom for GitHub is available now, making it easier than ever to teach with GitHub. Thousands of teachers use GitHub in their courses every day. They distribute starter repositories, give…

We’re hosting Hackcon III at our San Francisco office on July 18th and 19th. Hackcon is the place to be for student hackathon organizers. The event is run by our…

GitHub has been selected to participate as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code, a program where students receive a stipend to contribute to open source projects. If you…

There’s no substitute for hands-on experience, but for most students, real world tools can be cost prohibitive. That’s why we created the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our…

So many of us here at GitHub have benefited from early exposure to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that we’re always looking for ways to help young people develop a…

Computer science professor, Armando Fox, is one of the thousands of teachers who use GitHub to give their students hands-on experience writing software in teams. On a recent trip to…

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of education.github.com, a site dedicated to using GitHub at school. Students, teachers, and schools all over the world use GitHub to teach and…

John Britton and Matthew McCullough will be making a trek across Japan to host a series of talks and drinkups. We’d love to have you join us for one or…