Introduction

A Flask-based Web Application developed with Python and SQLite3.

Create an account, login, and start trading stocks. Allows users to add to their virtual account balance, search, buy, sell, and quote real stocks, and see their transaction history.

Adapted from Harvard's Introduction to Computer Science course, CS50, to make the project accessible outside of CS50's customized IDE.

Requisite Packages

The project is built off Flask's lightweight but simple web framework.

The requisite Flask files should be downloaded when the project is cloned, but, if not, follow the instructions to download Flask.

You will also need to download the requests and flask_session modules.

Download requests:
For OSX/Linux:

sudo pip install requests

For Windows:

pip install requests

Download flask_session:

pip install flask_session 

Launching the Web Application:

After cloning the project...

cd CS50Finance; cd flask; flask run

While running, the application will be accessible at http://127.0.0.1:5000/.

Troubleshooting:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests' or No module named 'flask_session'
Requests and flask_session are not built-in to Flask. To download them, the instructions under the "Requisite Packages" header.

Error: Could not import "some_string".
Check that you're current working directory is the flask folder within CS50Finance (see more information).
For OSX/Linux:

export FLASK_APP=app.py  

For Windows:

set FLASK_APP=app.py