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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:
[1] https://www.starryhope.com/chromebooks/faq/chromebook-java/

On Sep 15, 2017, at 7:16 AM, Etiene Dalcol <dalcol@etiene.net> wrote:

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

I don't have a chromebook and can't say for it, but I assume those online coding environment
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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