Inspiration
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have lost their jobs and had to cut spending or watch it more carefully, and one way to help would be to use an expense tracker to help make sure you are sticking to a budget. This is also useful for anyone who wants to be budget conscious and be more wise with their spending.
What it does
It keeps track of your personal expenses, allows you to set a monthly budget, and help make sure you adhere to that budget by showing you past expenses you've made, how much you have left out of your budget, and a breakdown of your expenses by category.
How we built it
Python along with the matplotlib library
Challenges we ran into
We had initially planned to use django to make a webapp, but the only one of our team members who was guiding us and knew how to use it left, so we had to restart at around 8pm.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Getting a program running even after a very long delay and having to restart after most of the time is used. Getting an interface that looks (reasonably) appealing for only using a text based output.
What we learned
When on a time crunch, stick to what you are familiar and comfortable with programming in since learning a new platform is an entire task on its own.
What's next for Expense Calculator
Add a GUI, make it use a database that allows users to login and store data on the cloud, and add more advanced spending analytics and budgeting features.
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