Learn Python • #12 Final Project • Build an Expense Tracking App!

In the final project of this Python beginner course, we'll build a personal expense tracking app from scratch.

With this app, you'll learn how to get expense data from a user (via the terminal), save and categorize that expense into a spreadsheet. This project will take about an hour, and will test all of the Python skills you've learnt so far.

You'll learn how to plan, structure and implement a project all the way from an idea to a finished product — as well as seeing how you can solve new and unexpected problems.

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📚 Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
02:55 - Project Specs: Expense Tracker
06:30 - Create an "Expense" Class
07:55 - Main Project Structure
13:27 - Getting User Expenses
30:58 - Saving Expenses to a File
36:14 - Summarise All Expenses
43:54 - Group Expense By Category
49:07 - Track Remaining Budget
56:46 - Wrapping Up

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[chaserb]

Thank you for this, I'm only in my second month of learning how to program and this was extremely helpful. I've been wanting to build one of these for myself for a few weeks and this is the best one I've found so far!

[kedarkavathekar]

Dear Sir,
You have explained all the concepts thoroughly. The language you used is understandable.
Basically class, def. function and storing and calling the data all these concepts are clearly explained. Thanks a lot for your efforts taken. I would like to learn from you about making desktop application using python/Tkinter or any other tool....
tanks and

[mansiwanjale]

Thank you soooo it was very helpful and i nearly revised my entire syllabus with this🙌😅.
Great work sir! I enjoyed making it actually and had kind of satisfaction at the result in end😃🤝

[GTA-OVERDOSE]

sir please explain How this thing works in list it donest work in other in lists: " total_spent = sum([x.amount for x in expenses]) " By The Way Great Video With Crystal Clear Explaination I Ever Watched On Youtube

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[MrTHUNDERSTRUCK]

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[CS-jwon]

I love the video and the project. Any tips on how to get the color / pretty emojis on VS Code / Python 3.9.2 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?
Thanks for your work.

[optimusprime]

This was really helpful, the little steps adding up to the big picture was perfect and did a great job in helping me understand the logic of the various steps; which is in fact, very important.
However, I ran into a few problems when writing into the .csv file. The code ran quite alright, but at the end, I got an error message, a “UnicodeEncodeError”
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can't encode character ‘\U0001f35a’ in position 14: character maps to <undefined>
This exception makes it impossible for the changes to be saved to the csv file, how do I go about resolving this, please?

[williamadams]

Is there a good python API recommended for pulling expenses from an account? Trying to automate the data into a spreadsheet. (I've looked at Plaid so far)