Finance in Practice

Financial literacy is an important topic that needs to be taught better. Finance in Practice provides a website where users can get practice applying financial strategies to better learn.

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Inspiration

We were discussing the Ivy Hackathon and how the idea was to make something for the elderly and also scams. Then we just discussed ideas related to that for a while until we eventually settled on teaching financial literacy.

What it does

Our project is an interactive way for people to learn how to make a budget, and be prepared for the unexpected expenses in life.

How we built it

We used HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to make the web part, and a website called Figma to design the cards and the logo.

Challenges we ran into

We got a decent ways into the project and realized the way we were doing it wasn't as engaging as we would like it to be, and so at about a third of the way in we scrapped almost everything except the very basic concept and started over. After about midnight the lack of sleep started to get to us, and a combination of just JavaScript being weird and missing basic things led to simple error taking way longer to solve than necessary.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we were able to almost completely start over at about one third of the way through and still ended with a very clean looking UI.

What we learned

None of us have used Git very extensively so during the making of this project we figured out how to make branches and pull and merge branches, while also making the project. Most of the group had never used Figma before, so we were learning that by using it and experimenting.

What's next for Finance in Practice

We would like a little more randomization of the cards. We have a couple more designs for cards, but we were unable to get it to randomize in time for submission.

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