Stock Market Game

A web application to manage a pretend portfolio of stocks, January 2020

By K. Wicz

Preview

Description

Upon the creation of a new account, a user is giften $10,000 to invest as they see fit in the stock market! Users can buy and sell stocks and then return later to see how well their investments fared. Users can have all of the fun of the stock market with none of the risk.

Setup/Installation Requirements

1. Download the repository

In Terminal:

• Navigate to where you want this application to be saved, i.e.:

cd desktop

• Clone the file from GitHub with HTTPS

git clone https://github.com/kwicz/stock-market-game.git

• Open file in your preferred text editor
  • On Mac:

  open -a {your text editor} stock-market-game

  • On Windows:

  stock-market-game

To Download Manually:

• Navigate to https://github.com/kwicz/stock-market-game.
• Click green "Clone or Download" button.
• Click "Download ZIP".
• Click downloaded file to unzip.
• Open folder called "stock-market-game-master".
• Right click "index.html" and select your preferred browser or text editor.

2. Lauch the program

Navigate to the root directory of your project in the terminal and enter:

cd finance
flask run

Known Bugs

No known bugs at this time.

Support and contact details

Have a bug or an issue with this application? Open a new issue here on GitHub.

Technologies Used

• Python
• Flask
• Jinja Templating Engine
• Harvard's CS50 IDE
• SQLite
• Alpha Vantage API
• Bootstrap 4

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2020 K.Wicz