[bliti]

This is an interesting point. The offer is nice, but does not offer anything that you can't get from the open source community or companies that have free trial plans. I'd say that learning these days is much cheaper than it was years ago. You don't need to get a server to push code, because you can use something like Heroku (php, python, ruby, java) or Azure (for .NET). Bitbucket is free. Multiple IDEs and/or text editors better than Atom are free (or have a trial plan). Etc.