Money University

A webapp designed to teach College students the fundamentals of financial literacy that they weren't taught in school!

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Inspiration

I've recently become very interested in the idea of becoming financially literate. I have been reading books, listening to podcasts, and asking peers questions in my quest to become Financially Independent. None of this was ever taught to me in school, nor was it a value passed down from my parents. I simply saw the benefits of becoming financially literate, and wanted to help other college students realize the importance of taking control of your money before it takes control of you!

What it does

This webapp provides a plethora of valuable information and resources, namely podcasts, stock statistics, and other valuable information for investing.

How we built it

Using Yahoo! Finance API, we pulled data from trending stocks to display on our site in a graphical visualization. We used HTML5Up.net as a template and redesigned our frontend with desired changes, and published it on github pages.

Challenges we ran into

Initially, we were planning on hosting this on google cloud. However, the domain name took longer than we expected to verify, so we had to find an alternative method of hosting (i.e github pages). We also wanted to use Flask to allow the user to Query through a button to allow them to search for a specific stock that would then show up on our page. We tried using Alpha Vantage, but had some technical difficulties with our display, hence why we used Yahoo! Finance.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that the project projects onto the project.

We are both proud that we were able to build a site in this short of a time, and that it displays the data using an API.

What we learned

We learned alot about how to use Yahoo! Finance, Alpha Vantage, and Flask APIs with regards to a python script and an HTML frontend. We also learned some valuable information regarding Google Cloud, and it's paralells with other Cloud services. Also, setting up a domain and registering it using a TXT record.

What's next for Money University

Money University will support a search funcitonality that will allow the user to enter a stock, and will display a graphical representation tracking the stock over time. Money University will also be hosted on the cloud in a Python3 App to support dynamic changes to the site, rather than a static site.

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