This is how our school teaches AP CS 1 and CS 2. They use to use Crouton but required developer mode. Now with Google adding containers to ChromeOS you can use Termux inside a container without developer mode required.

ChromeOS is the only commercial OS that has the exact same environment used in the cloud on a laptop.

In someways ChromeOS is now an OS of OSs. My 2nd oldest son studying CS as University uses ChromeOS, Android and desktop Linux all on the same machine at the same time. With containers this is done with basically zero additional overhead.

Google has something really special here and would expect it to become a strong developer platform over the next couple of years.

It is just ideal in that you just pull down whatever containers you need and they will run unchanged on ChromeOS as it has the same Linux kernel as the cloud.