Using a Chromebook for this course

Warning!

I don't know much about Chromebooks. Here are some guesses. If you have comments, suggestions, or know of good tutorials, please let me know.

If you're a confident geek, you can run Linux on a Chromebook with Crostini. Then you can run VSCode, and everything else. Yay!

What if you're not a geek? Read on.

There are two tasks:

  • Creating and editing HTML and CSS files
  • Uploading files to your web server

Creating and editing HTML and CSS files

VSCode doesn't run on Chromebooks. There are several other apps you can use to make these files. A popular one is Caret.

Uploading to your web server

You can use the cPanel file explorer. It works in a browser. No worries!

FileZilla doesn't run on Chromebooks. There are alternatives, like this one.