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• Provide more directed guidance in the beginning to set the environment and detailed instructions for completing the first exercise.
• Add a better description of the chartcrafthub package and why people need to install it.
• The workshop description should mention that it is for people with experience with Python, Matplotlib, or any other visualization library.

Hi @Kislovskiy

Here is the solution I found for the font issue (RobotoMono not being installed in the dev container).

In a terminal inside the contained we need to:

1. Install the fonts

sudo wget --content-disposition -P /usr/share/fonts/truetype/robotomono https://github.com/googlefonts/RobotoMono/raw/main/fonts/ttf/RobotoMono-{Bold,BoldItalic,Italic,Light,LightItalic,Medium,MediumItalic,Regular,Thin,ThinItalic}.ttf?raw=true

3. Rebuild the Linux font cache:

sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt install fontconfig && \
fc-cache -fv

4. Delete the matplotlib font cache and re-import mpl to rebuilt it:

 rm .cache/matplotlib/ -rf

Most probably step 1 could somehow be replaced by copying the exact same font from the local repo into the dev container. Also Step 3 might not be necessary if the dev container is built with the font before being started.