ExpenseTracker-GroupB

Advanced Python - Spring 2022 Project

An app where the user can manage all their expenses in one place. Adding, Editing or Visualizing made simple

To activate the virtual-environment setup, including the set of dependencies with their required version libraries, use the following command prior to running the modules :

source venvironment/bin/activate

Roadmap

April 28th

• Building Roadmap
• Implement functionality for user to add their expenses, specifying the following fields :
  • Title
  • Category
  • Date
  • Amount
• Saving each edit to a csv

Category can be one of the following : Groceries, Entertainment, Travel, Shopping, Bills, Leasure or Investments

Execution

• Run python main.py or python3 main.py in terminal.

• Example case:

  (base) kitamado:project-Deliverable-1 a0$ python main.py
  Welcome to Expense Tracker!
  Let's start adding Expenses
  Enter the Title of the Expense: wii
  Enter Category as an Integer as follows: 
  1 : Groceries 
  2 : Entertainment 
  3 : Travel 
  4 : Shopping 
  5 : Bills 
  6 : Investments 
  Category: 2
  Enter the Date of the Expense as DD-MM-YYYY: 25-03-2021
  Enter the Amount: 39.7
  Expense successfully saved!

May 5th

• Implement functionality for user to retrieve their expense data by date, timeframe or categories
  • Load data from a csv file
  • Allow filtering data by Date
  • Allow filtering data by a window (timeframe)
  • Allow filtering data by categoeis
• Implement Visualizations for expenses by week, month and categories
  • Barchart or Piechart of weekly expenses
  • Barchart or Piechart of monthly expenses
  • Piechart of overall expenses by category
• Creating GitHub repository and commit all previous code

May 12th

• Code refactoring - Pylint feedback
• Code refactoring - Object Oriented Programming
  • Implement Expense Visualization Class

May 19th

• Refactor code to use Try-Catch blocks for handling Exceptions
  • For handling poorly formatted input (For ex. Date)
• Implement Unit Tests with atleast 4 test cases

Run python3 unit_tests.py -v in terminal.

June 2nd

• Set up virtual environment for all code dependencies and running the project
• Implement Functionality that allows user to select and edit expense entries
  • User can filter expenses and select entries using Expense-ID identifier
  • Editing each entry can be done field by field
• Prepare README.md
  • Exemplify with illustrations various functionalities of the module