$100 piece of dirt chromebook + cloud services = $100 + $600 per year to actually use it. Why not use a $200 secondhand lenovo that can actually run programs a

$100 piece of dirt chromebook + cloud services = $100 + $600 per year to actually use it. Why not use a $200 secondhand lenovo that can actually run programs and give them a real system ? When I was very small I actually got an intro to programming class on mainframe. You could only work while connected. It was horrible, since you could only do exactly what the teacher said, there was essentially no cpu capacity available (and if multiple 7 year olds who've never seen a program run before complained about it, it's bad). It was beyond worthless. Stop the walled garden, especially for programmers.