Inspiration: we wanted to make a tracker that was clearer than excel spreadsheets.
What it does: allows for easier display of an excel spreadsheet through clear boxes to enter goals, spent and earned amounts, and see their current month's finances.
How we built it: we used openpyxl to save data, tkinter to display the data to the user, and PIL for the image.
Challenges we ran into: we had issues ensuring valid data for any money entries, and saving to a particular sheet based on a year and month.
Accomplishments that we're proud of: we only had about a week's experience with tkinter, and we only started learning openpyxl and PIL at the start of the hackathon.
What we learned: being able to quickly learn the API for and create a program with python packages we had little to no experience with, and using GitHub with other people and managing pull requests.
What's next for Financial Tracker: fixing an issue where the spreadsheet doesn't create new pages for different months, and a clearer interface to ensure the user opens a file and selects a month and year before entering any data.
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