Can Chromebooks be used to execute Java or other programs?

Question

Here is my dashboard view.py the error I think is coming from the user_data instance, I just couldn't think of a way to go about it. I have also search on stack overflow for solutions but they happens to be different issue but the same Value error. what could possibly be the problem with my code?

def dashboard(request, session_username):
    user_videos = VideoPost.objects.filter(
                 user__username=request.user.username).order_by('-id')
    user_data = User.objects.get_or_create(
                          user=User.objects.get(
                            username=request.user.username))[0]
    user_video_likes = 0
    user_videos_views = 0

    for video in user_videos:
        user_video_likes += video.likes.count()
        user_videos_views += video.video_views.count()


    params = {'videos': user_videos, 
                  'user_data': user_data, 
                  'total_likes':user_video_likes, 
                  'total_views': user_videos_views}

    return render(request, 'dashboard.html', params)

Solution

The short answer is that out of the box you can't execute Java because in ChromeOS you basically don't have Java installed. It's chrome (the browser) with a little extra APIs that let it act as an OS. However, if you like to hack... you can install ubuntu (or other linux distros) on it and from there you have the ability to execute Java (and many other technologies). Here is a tutorial I've wrote in the past on 'how to install ubuntu on your Chromebook'. Good luck.