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GitHub Foundations certification exam is now free for verified students on GitHub Education. Previously costing $99, this offer requires students to register with a school-issued email and enable two-factor authentication on their GitHub account. The exam covers GitHub basics, including repositories, commits, and project management. Upon passing, students receive a Credly badge as digital proof of their achievements.

GitHub Foundations certification is free! 🚀🔥💲

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Why didn’t this happen when I was a student?

are they running out of money or something lmao.
Github certified. come on… its not really hard to understand how to use it.
Its equivalent to middle school kids getting their ball point pen license. why would any professional pay for that…

I’m a student , I found the university I go to in the list provided by github but they didn’t give us student email adresses , will that cause a problem ?

One of the most useful Service GitHub and collabrate and share your code with other.
It is a web based hosting service for Git repositories, online plateform.
It is very popular plateform to collabrate on your project.
Basic commamd: - Git --version -&gt; cheak the version
-&gt;git status
config setting:- git config --global <a href="http://user.name" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">user.name</a>&quot;your username&quot;
git config --global <a href="http://email.id" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">email.id</a>&quot;your email&quot;
Cheak the config Setting:- git config —list