HW: Python Finance Info - Individual Homework

Description

The goal of this lab is to practice the usage of Python with networking programming. Perform the following:

• Setup your Python development environment
• Research to find a set of python API that you can use to retrieve financial data. (Hint: Google, Yahoo, etc.)
• Implement a Python program where it will take a stock symbol as input and output the following:
  • Current date and time
  • Full name of the company
  • Stock price
  • Value changes (+ for increase and - for decrease)
  • Percentage changes (+ for increase and - for decrease)
• Your program must handle any error situation (such as no network, invalid symbol, etc.)

Example

Input:

Please enter a symbol:

ADBE

Output:

Mon Oct 10 17:23:48 PDT 2016

Adobe Systems Incorporated (ADBE)

109.24 +0.60 (+0.55%)

Input:

Please enter a symbol:

<User can enter another symbol>

Grading

• Please send source code and run script for ISA to grade. Source code can be email as attachment or link to github.
• Please send the web link and source code to coolprofsinn2@gmail.com for grading by beginning of next class.