This is something that I just found out and thought I had to share. Turns out Microsoft has a website called Dreamspark where students can get development tools and ebooks and training for free!

Those include VisualStudio (for those who are going to Computer Science, this is EPIC), XNA Framework (for developing XBox Games - Saw its tutorials and it seems so easy to learn) and Kodu (or was it Kudo? -- I always forget) which I've heard is an easy alternative for Flash.

For Computer Science students, they have training for a lot of amazing stuff! Databases and Cloud are included They're partnering with PluralSight which has tons of amazing tutorials. Including for apps, flash and others.

I've managed to subscribe to it. All you need is either sign up using an EDU account or go through a verification process to prove you're a student. I don't see any expiration dates so far or anything.

If you can't guess already, I'm so excited. I've been trying to find a way to subscribe to pluralsight for a while now :D