Expense Manager

Project Description

The Expense Manager project is a Python-based application designed to help users track and manage their financial expenses. It follows Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles and includes two core classes:

1. Expense Class: Represents an individual financial expense with attributes such as a unique ID, title, amount, and timestamps.
2. ExpenseDatabase Class: Manages a collection of expenses, allowing users to add, remove, and retrieve expenses.

Features

• Add new expenses with a unique ID, title, amount, and timestamps.
• Update expenses (title and/or amount) while refreshing the last updated timestamp.
• Retrieve expenses by ID or title.
• Remove expenses from the database.
• Convert expense records into a dictionary format for easy data handling.

How to Clone the Repository

To get a local copy of the project, follow these steps:

# Open a terminal and navigate to your desired directory

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/TelRich/expense-manager.git

# Change to the project directory
cd expense-manager

How to Run the Code

Ensure you have Python installed (version 3.6 or later recommended). Then, run the following commands:

# Run the Python script
python expense_manager.py

Example Usage

Here's an example of how to use the Expense Manager:

from expense_manager import Expense, ExpenseDatabase

db = ExpenseDatabase()

# Create expenses
expense1 = Expense("Groceries", 50.25)
expense2 = Expense("Transport", 15.00)

# Add expenses to the database
db.add_expense(expense1)
db.add_expense(expense2)

# Print all expenses
print(db.to_dict())

License

This project is open-source and available for personal and educational use.

Author

Developed by Goodrich Okoro

Contributing

Feel free to submit issues or pull requests to improve this project.