Stock Name for a Stocks Game

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Inspiration

We looked at the capital one category, and used that for direction toward something finance related. A couple of us have had some minor experience with game development, and we're all a bit competitive, so it seemed like a good idea.

What it does

The current client-side features are: Account management (register and login) Place guesses Look at the leaderboard

Internally there is also: Reading the latest stock prices, using the very convenient yahoo finance Scoring players' guesses when they come about

How we built it

The website is built out of html, javascript, and css, and it mostly serves to fetch information from a server running on python, accessed for now through ngrok.

Challenges we ran into

Trying to get the webpage to connect to the data management was a long and painful process. Web browsers tend to care about security and authentication, which is difficult to do.

What we learned

There weren't really any major milestones in learning. It's always incremental progress, practice, and incorporating one or two new things at a time that will yield long-term results. We don't want to learn a whole new system that will only be used once; we want to hone skills that are going to last a while, and be consistently useful.

What's next for Stock Name for a Stocks Game

We had an idea to place predictions via an interactive graph showing the history. The idea was you would just click on a point in the graph to place your guess, which would be much nicer to use than the current system. Aside from that, there are improvements to make in the general quality of the code and the algorithms in pretty much every area.