CS50 Finance is one of the last assignments of CS50x, the online introductory computer science course from Harvard. It is a virtual stock trading app, written in Python and Flask. I finished the original assignment, but then started playing around with it and added some extra features for fun and learning :)
You can view the live demo here (it may take a few seconds to load!)
- Users can view additional data in the home page: day change, cost basis, and gain/loss info for each stock as well as for the portfolio as a whole
- Users can deposit more cash, so they can trade like a billionaire 🤑🤑
- Added a running cash balance to the History page
- Green and red colors to highlight positive/negative amounts
- Users can change their password, as well as delete their profile and data
- Replaced raw SQL and SQLite in the original assignment with SQLAlchemy ORM and Postgres DB for database reads and writes, with models under
application/models.py - Created a clearer project structure and followed Flask recommendations, by splitting up route controllers into different files under
application/routes, and creating a dedicatedconfig.pyfile for Flask's config variables