#Counting Words
Skill Level: Intermediate
Time Limit: 15-20 minutes
Variations of this challenge are pretty common in code interviews and phone screens for software engineering. The task may differ but the fundamentals are usually pretty much the same - Given a file, read it, and parse the data.
##Instructions
- Read the
speech.txtfile and display a count of the most commonly used words in the document. - Your list of commonly used words should be human readable and in descending order by count.
##Things to Think About
- What would you test first?
- What are the edge cases?
- Is your solution object oriented?
##Example
Given: "The cat is tall. The cat is much bigger than the mouse."
Then:
3 - the
2 - cat
1 - is
1 - mouse
1 - bigger
1 - than
1 - much