Understand is free for students and teachers to use for educational purposes. Want to teach a class on code maintenance or need some metrics for your thesis? No problem, we got you covered.
Create a SciTools account using your educational email address — the address your school or university issued you.
Register for a free accountWith the account in place, apply for the educational license. It is free for students and teachers using Understand for educational purposes.
Apply for an educational licenseFree for educational purposes · Apply with your educational email address
The educational license in the words this site uses for it.
| Term | What it says |
|---|---|
| Cost | Free |
| Who it is for | Students and teachers |
| What it may be used for | Educational purposes — for example, teaching a class on code maintenance, or gathering metrics for a thesis |
| How to register | With your educational email address |
| How to get it | Two steps: register for a free account, then apply for the educational license |
The same tool engineers use on production codebases, on your coursework and research.
Hundreds of cross-language industry standard software metrics, displayed visually and exported for your write-up.
Dependency, call, butterfly and UML graphs drawn from real code, ready to export into slides.
Cross-references and call trees make an open source project or a class assignment legible fast.
Register with your educational email address, apply for the license, and use Understand for your coursework, teaching or research.
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