Hi,
My initial recommendation for the Chrome Book would be Eclipse with the Lua plug-in (I currently use this on my Mac), but a little Googling reveals the JDK cannot be installed on it [1].
For home computers (Windows, Mac, Linux), I'd recommend Eclipse and Lua. If your son has a larger project, it would be nicer to use the home computer than compared to a browser based Lua environment.
Sources:
Hi,
Not exactly what you asked for, but related:
https://codecombat.com/ is a browser RPG game
that lets you control your character by programming. It's a teaching tool with many different
programming languages available. Lua is one of them.
Cheers
On 15 September 2017 at 07:23, p. shkadzko
<p.shkadzko@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Milind,
I am a chromebook user and tried to use it for coding. I ended up installing crouton that enables running Linux alongside ChromeOS and later I removed ChromeOS completely and installed GalliumOS, a Linux distribution for chromebooks. As it was already mentioned, your best bet is online IDE platform, cloud9 is the best imho.
Best,
Pavel
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 5:17 AM, 彭 书呆
<nerditation@outlook.com> wrote:
On 09/15/2017 08:07 AM, Milind Gupta wrote:
> Hi,
> My son's school currently only has chromeboooks . Are there any good tools that can be used to do Lua programming in that?
> After searching a bit I found a love 2d port
http://binji.github.io/love-nacl/. But this does not have an environment to write code.
> Is there any other useful stuff they can use?
>
> Thanks,
> Milind
should be suitable, such as ideone[1]. it is not Lua specific, but has good Lua support.
also, there's cloud9[2]. though it is intended for different usage scenarios.
there are many other similar websites, some are really feature rich. you can check them out yourself.
[1] https://www.ideone.com/
[2] https://c9.io/
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