Consider whether Poetry is the best choice
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Feel it complicated setup for students (and I don't think debugging Poetry setup issues is relevant for the message of this course) and also doesn't play nicely with Binder/Thebe (#87 ). Maybe just a requirements.txt with links/instructions for various virtual env options would be better. We actually already have dependencies in both Poetry and requirements.txt to try and (half-successfully) workaround the Binder/Thebe issue.
Would a conda enviornment yml file be easier? One of the easiest ways to install python at all is via anaconda + things like graphviz require additional binaries to run. They could be included in the conda setup file whereas requirements.txt can't really do this?
I'd support that, but I'd lean towards installing as much as possible with pip/requirements.txt to be flexible for anyone that doesn't want to use conda (you can have an environment.yml file with a pip section).
The RSE course now has a setup using poetry to keep dependencies up to date but creating a requirements.txt for participants to use (setup by James R I think) - maybe this course should do the same.