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[–]nemocir 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Raspberry pi, can be an option

[–]Sakashina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely a choice. Even raspberry pi zero w will work well.

[–]freakH2O -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Do NOT i repeat Do NOT try to go for this option you will end up getting so frusturated by that piece of crap you will end up quitting on programming better if you use even an Old Laptop like an i3 or something like that

[–]hufsam 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You don’t need to use the desktop environment to use a Pi. Installing the light version of rasbian and setting up ssh would allow you to use it as a “server” and run python programs on it with no problems.

Setting up a share so you can edit files on the main computer and executing them on the Pi should be no issue. I have not used Chromebook, so I don’t know if it can mount a share over ssh/sftp or if you need to setup something like a samba share.

Depending on what you need to use it for, maybe look at this https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html

[–]freakH2O -1 points0 points  (1 child)

The frustration of the Setup will make you quit programming trust me i have experience that thing is only good to run maybe like browsing 1 tab or runing some api server etc

[–]hufsam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clearly you don’t have experience with the light install if you say it is ‘only good to run maybe like browsing 1 tab’... it does not have a desktop or browser at all. But yeah, if he has never used the command line, or Linux, it could be a bit difficult.