From 6264db65028a974119032746b8055d8972a9e0fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "derek.holloway" <dhol325@wgu.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:33:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] C. Update readme file

---
 .gitignore |  5 -----
 README.MD  | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index abcf3ea9..a2d16b7d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
-stocks.parquet
-stocks_preview.csv
 appdata.db
 __pycache__
 obj
 bin
 *.db
-*.keras
-*.pkl
-*.csv
 
 !/WebServer/AIPython/python/bin
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diff --git a/README.MD b/README.MD
index 615ae283..46147d5f 100644
--- a/README.MD
+++ b/README.MD
@@ -12,6 +12,19 @@ Overview of the directories
     └── wwwroot      # Statically hosted Web Files
 ```
 
+## Prerequisites
+  
+You need to have docker and docker-compose installed
+
+## Hardware Requrement
+
+You need a computer with docker-compose installed. 
+GPU is not needed as it runs via the CPU runtime. 
+
+Minimum Specs:  
+  4 core CPU. 
+  16GB ram. 
+
 ## Installation
 How to host a local copy
 
@@ -27,4 +40,5 @@ docker compose up -d
 ```
 
 ## Usage
+
 Navigate to [Localhost:5000](http://localhost:5000).
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