Awesome AndrewID

A curated list of all possible resources (tools, courses, platforms, etc) an Andrew account can get you

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The list below was collected and gathered on a basis of personal experience. If you have any suggestions, please check the contribution guidelines and submit a pull request.

Table of Contents

Courses

✅ GitHub Education Pack - With your andrew email, you can get free access to several platforms and tools, including GitHub Pro, Travis CI, free 3 months to DataCamp, free 6 months to Frontend Masters, and more.
- Add your andrew email to your GitHub account. Check this page to learn more.
- Then, follow these instructions to know extensively how you can activate your GitHub Education Pack.
✅ Coursera - With your andrew email, you can get access to one course for free, with a certificate of completion.
✅ LinkedIn Learning - With your andrew email, you can get access to several courses for free, with certificates of completion. Pair your andrew email with your LinkedIn account to get access to more courses.
✅ DataCamp - With GitHub Education Pack activated, you can get access to DataCamp for free for 3 months.
✅ Educative - With GitHub Education Pack activated, you can get access to Educative for free for 6 months.
✅ Frontend Masters - With GitHub Education Pack activated, you can get access to Frontend Masters for free for 6 months.

Tools

NB: If you have GitHub Education Pack, you can still get access to some of these tools for free.

✅ JetBrains - With your andrew email, you can get access to some of JetBrains' IDEs for free, including IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, DataSpell, and more.
- Create an account with your andrew email and follow these instructions to learn more.
- It's renewed every other school year, so you'll need to renew it.
✅ GitLens Pro - A VSCode extension that helps you visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and code lens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and so much more.
- Follow the GitHub Education Pack instructions to get access to this tool,
- And visit this page to learn more about their education plan.
✅Travis CI - Travis CI is an open-source, hosted continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted on GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, etc. Wit GitHub Education Pack activated, you will get private builds for free while you're a student.
- Follow the GitHub Education Pack instructions to get access to this tool,
- And visit this page to learn more about their education plan.
❓Astra Security - Astra Security is a privately held U.S. & India based cyber security company. It offers excellent and reasonably priced security against a number of popular and bothersome exploits, with its exceptional firewall features, you can secure your applications and deliver at scale. As a student, you get Astra’s Pro Plan for 6 Months.
- Follow the GitHub Education Pack instructions to get access to this tool,
- And visit this page to learn more about their education plan.

Platforms

✅ Microsoft Azure - With your andrew email, you can get access to Microsoft Azure for free, with $100 of credit. Follow these instructions to learn more.
✅ DigitalOcean - With your GitHub Education Pack activated, you can get $200 of credit for 1 year.
✅ Heroku - With your GitHub Education Pack activated, you can get a credit of $13 per month for a year.

Libraries

NB: When/if you find any written resource on any recognized platform, look for Institution Login. Most of the time you will find CMU listed in those institutions. Select it and use your andrew email to login

✅ O'Reilly - With your andrew email, you can read books and watch courses published by O'Reilly for free
- After finding the book/course you are looking for, click on the Sign in button on the top right corner of the page.
- Then enter your andrew email in the provided field and click on Continue.
- You will be redirected to CMU's login page. Enter your andrew email and password and click on Login.
✅ ScienceDirect - Get access to most ScienceDirect's books and journals for free with your andrew email.
- After finding a paper or journal to read, register with your andrew email or use CMU Cisco AnyConnect VPN to access the site.
✅ Springer - With your andrew email, you can get access (read and download) to most of Springer's books and journals for free.
- After finding the resource, click on the Log in button on the top right corner of the page.
- A new login page will be opened, click on Access via your institution.
- Next page, in the search bar, type Carnegie Mellon University and select it.
- The CMU login page will be opened, enter your andrew email and password and click on Login.
- You will be redirected to the full, free resource you were looking for.
✅ Wiley Online Library - With your andrew email, you can get access (view and download) to all of Wiley's books and journals for free.
- After finding a book you want to read on the platform, sign-in through the Login/Register link on your screen's top right
- You will be redirected to new page, look for Institutional Login
- A CMU login page will be redirected to you, enter your credentials and your are there.
- Try: Managing Technology-Based Projects by Hans J. Thamhain

Miscellaneous

✅ Notion Pro - Notion is a note-taking app that allows you to create notes, to-do lists, and more. With your andrew email, you can get it for free through Notion Education Plus Plan.
- To learn more, follow these instructions.
✅ Figma Education - Figma is a collaborative interface design tool. With your andrew email, you can get full features of a paid plan for free as a student.
- To access it, create an account with your andrew email and/or follow these instructions to verify your education status.
- Or click Get Verified button on the Figma Education page and follow the instructions.
✅ Adobe Express Premium - Adobe Express (previously Adobe Spark) lets you quickly and easily create standout social graphics, flyers, logos, posters, labels, invitations, business cards and more on mobile and web. It's the perfect alternative to Canva.

Furthermore, the plan includes other services such as Adobe Portfolio, Benance Network, Publish Online, etc
- Go to this page and click Log in with school account button.
- Enter your andrew email manually via a provided input field (not via the Google's widget) and click Next. This will redirect you to the CMU's login page.
- Enter the usual credentials and you're good to go.
- Strictly, follow the above steps to get the premium access
- To learn more about the plan visit this page.
✅ Miro Education Plan - Miro is a collaborative whiteboard platform that enables teams to work together visually. With your andrew email, you can get access to Miro's Education Plan which comes with extra features to the basic plan such as: unlimited active boards, manual board backup, etc.
- To get full access to the plan, click the Sign in button
- Then on the page, click on the Sign in Google button and connect it with your andrew email
- To learn more about the plan and its advantages, read this article: Miro for Education

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