Animating Stock Prices

Inspiration

What it does

How we built it

Challenges we ran into

Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

What's next for Animating Stock Prices

Inspiration

We were coming up with ideas when we thought about being able to compare and contrast as well as attempting to view one at a time -- for stock prices. We thought that having both could be a win win to the investment world.

What it does

After inputting a stock symbol, it outputs the price (in USD) and a graph of the stock price. If you refresh and do it over, you can view individually, if you don't refresh, the graphs will draw on top of each other and you can compare.

How we built it

Used the site repl.it (JavaScript)

Challenges we ran into

The major issue we ran into was with API and trying to get the data from it. At first, the API wasn’t cooperating, an API didn’t exist, then numbers didn’t, and then there were issues with the graph. All in all, all was fixed.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Finally getting a working API and getting it to pull multiple data arrays from it.

What we learned

Patience is a virtue. Also, there is a way to graph using canvas vs using an outside thing. Also, you can pull multiple, slightly unrelated thighs from APIs.