>Those submit homework 1 and receive a passing grade will receive a coupon good for 100 hours of small instances of EC2 for use on the remaining homework assignments plus a coupon to upgrade their free GitHub accounts to a Micro account (both good through the end of course).

Looks like they've put a lot of effort into this course. Judging by the syllabus, I think a better title would have been: Intro to Ruby and Web Programming