Exercise: Word-count-1

word-count-1.md

Word count

TLDR: The program to write must calculate words frequency from a given file.

We will provide you a file with some text on it, and you have to open it and find the frequencies of all words in it having the following requirements:

• Assume a valid UTF-8 input file
• All words must be processed in lower case (ignore case) Output must be sorted by word alphabetically
• Output must have one entry per word, having its frequency next to it

Example input:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and we ary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore ....

## Example output:

a 2
and 1 
dreary 1
... 

Resources

• Input file for testing https://file.io/BPWnfw

Exercise requirements

• No UI interfaces are required, you can make a command-line application from it (e.g. java -jar myprogram.jar words.txt)
• Use Java-8 as target environment
• Create a README.txt file with a short guide for running the code
• Optional: Use a build tool for the project (Maven or Ant or Gradle)
• Optional: Create a GIT repository for the project at github.com