This cart is best used by loading like:
load #stockmonkey run |
because it requires using the command prompt.
The story with this one is:
I unexpectedly got a really tiny amount of money and decided to split it between the (two) kids and put it into stock brokerage accounts for them. Then they had to pick stocks to invest it in, which thankfully isn't too difficult these days due to fractional shares.
One kid picked a few stocks with some help, but the other one wanted to try the "monkey throws darts at a stock page" approach.
Both are learning pico-8 though so I decided to take this opportunity to write some simple pico-8 code to pick random S&P500 stock symbols in a way that's simple enough for younger kids to understand the code.
(I then added some more complicated stuff to try to improve randomness a bit and also print some instructions, but put that in other tabs.)
This is not terribly useful for investing (do I have to say it? NOT INVESTING ADVICE!), but its a good example of simple code for kids to start with.
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