It’s been a little while since the last blog post, so I’ll bring you up to date. I got assigned the project I wanted which is, “Cloud based Algorithmic Trading” The goal of this project is to create a program that can optimize trading algorithms and show the user various data points to help them determine and create a strong trading algorithm. With the stretch goal of perhaps integrating this with a stock brokerage and allowing for automated trades based on a given algorithm. All in all I am very excited to be working on this, even though it is a tad daunting.
In the past few weeks our team has been working on breaking the project down into functional areas and assigning them to team members. We also have drafted our design document to specify how we plan to make this project come to fruition. The function area I am assigned to is the front end of the project, so its up to me to figure out how we want to implement a solid user interface. After a little research into the options for this I decided to use React.
I have utilized React before, but I am honestly not very well versed in it. So, I have been doing some digging into it, watching some tutorials and trying to get a better understanding of it. As I have learned more about React I can see how it seems like a very useful tool for creating user interfaces. All in all, I am slowly growing more confident with it, but I’m sure I wont be completely comfortable with it until I have seriously used it for a while.
I believe that is all I have to update on my adventures in computer science so far. Our projects v0.0.1 is due in about two weeks, so I am sure I will be posting updates on that in the next blog post.
Farewell!