Inspiration
- We thought of StockSim while brainstorming ideas that would help the incoming generation with their financial literacy
- Our website would be the perfect way to get a hold of adolescents and teach them how to appropriately handle their stocks ## What it does
- Our website is the perfect way to get a hold of adolescents and teach them how to appropriately handle their stocks ## How we built it
- We used a python flask framework with setting up a local host server and used bootstrap for visual aesthetics and a Yfinance API. ## Challenges we ran into
- Our biggest complication was that we couldn’t work together on the same piece of code
- It was difficult to figure out how to set up a virtual environment and ways to share our code with each other ## Accomplishments that we're proud of
- This was the first website that we created together. It turned out to be a big success!
- We were able to simultaneously code together even during Isolation.
- We were also able to work through our technical difficulties of working on an online hackathon. ## What we learned
- We learned how to use coding languages together, such as python and HTML/CSS/JS.
- We also learned how to make web applications, using Flask for python.
- Lastly, we learned how to manage a coding project and make the many elements of a project come together to create our first web application. ## What's next for StockSim
- Our program will eventually support the options for users to make accounts where they can buy and sell their own stocks, with real or fake money to practice.
- We will also add many more ways to invest, such as investing in calls or puts.
- Another feature we are adding is the user profile. This will log all their transactions and show their balance.
- In the future, we will add support for multiple users.
- We would also like to add iOS and Android app support.
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