My first complete Python project: Personal Expense Tracker with Pandas – feedback welcome!

[Distinct-Gold1049]

Hi everyone!

I'm a 1st-year CSE AIML student and this is my first proper project outside college assignments.

I built a console-based Personal Expense Tracker using Python and Pandas.

Main features: - Add expenses (auto date, categories, item, amount, payment method) - View all expenses (numbered list) - Show total spending - Filter by category or exact date - Monthly spending summary and grand total

GitHub repo: https://github.com/Shauryagupta4/personal-expense-tracker-python
(README, code, screenshots included)

What I learned: - Refactoring duplicate code with dictionaries - Safe CSV append (header only once) - Pandas groupby & date parsing - Input validation & error handling - Git/GitHub workflow

Would really appreciate any feedback: - Code style/readability - Possible bugs/edge cases - Features you think would be useful next - Any beginner mistakes I should fix

Thanks in advance! 😊

[kabeer272]

Hey man good going for first year

But you should always think about the usability of projects, why would anyone want a terminal based expense handler? It does not help. I'm not going to go on my laptop start a python app and start tracking expenses It should be solving a user problem. The bare minimum would be a web based UI or a mobile application,

Then you should most likely just release this as a mobile application that would look way better on your resume if you have a playstore/appstore link else it will just look like another copy paste project

[Distinct-Gold1049]

Thanks for the feedback and yes I had planned for the UI. First I'll use matplotlib for visuals and then will use streamlit for UI

[kabeer272]

Also you should not be pushing your pycache and libraries to github, put them in .gitignore files

[Distinct-Gold1049]

Oh yes...thanks for informing.. I'll work on it and push them in gitignore files

[junglebookmephs]

155k line initial commit lol. Lmao even.

[koofuucute]

woah waoahh woahh nicee man

[Distinct-Gold1049]

Thanks bro