Heroku is for Students

Grow your skills on Heroku

As you’re learning a new language or concept, you want to focus your time on writing great code and building beautiful apps. Heroku gives you a simple path to getting your app projects up and running quickly — without getting sidetracked by managing servers and infrastructure.

Heroku supports student learning with a cloud-based, platform as a service (PaaS) for building, running, and managing apps. The platform gives you everything you need to do your best work, including a fully-managed runtime environment coupled with a wide range of tools and integrated services. We take care of DevOps, so you can focus on becoming a better developer.

Support for Developer Learning

Heroku’s flexibility allows you to build apps using the language or framework that you know best or love to use the most. It’s a great place to practice popular architectural patterns, such as microservices, or deployment methodologies, such as continuous delivery. When you run into issues, our robust documentation, support, and community resources are available to help you understand the root cause and troubleshoot quickly.

Many Heroku developers use a range of free services to experiment, learn, and prototype new ideas. Some of our customers have even transformed their student projects into viable startup businesses on Heroku. When your app is ready to grow, Heroku’s operational experience offers built-in tools for easily scaling and maintaining application health.