Prelude to the Interface

Quarter II: Obtaining pertinent data. The second step in this project involved extracting desired data regarding the major American indices and listings on those indices from Yahoo! Finance (finance.yahoo.com) as desired by the user, as a prelude to constructing the interface.

• Iteration IV: Retrieval of current value of major indices using PHP. The values of the Dow Jones Industrial, NASDAQ, and Standard and Poor's 500, in addition to the daily changes in those values (in terms of points and percent) were obtained as the initial exercise for later use in the interface.
• Iteration V: Retrieval of technical data for listings on the major indices. The code used in Iteration IV was expanded substantially in order to obtain data for listings on the major indices, including market capital (in dollars), price-to-earnings ratio (P/E), P/E-to-growth ratio (PEG), daily volume, and average daily volume. A PHP form allowed users to enter a ticker symbol through which they obtained the aforementioned information regarding the stock.
• Iteration VI: Digital version of poster. In preparation for a paper version of the poster, an online edition was created using nested tables to show an abstract, an introduction, a methodology, the result, visual aids to comprehension, and other related items. Following the completion of the online draft, the project was presented in paper form. Also included in this iteration were the final administrative requirements for Quarter II.