This program is designed to download a webpage from https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29364/pg29364.txt, convert it to lowercase, and count the frequency of each letter that starts a word. It will then output the letter that begins the most words on the page.
There were some decisions that I needed to make regarding how to interpret the requirements:
- The requirements did not specify how to handle non-letter characters that start words, such as underscores or brackets. To keep it simple, I decided to include them in the count and treat them as letters.
- Another decision was to treat uppercase and lowercase letters as the same, to simplify the counting process.
- I considered using a more advanced natural language processing library to tokenize the text and extract the first letter of each word, but ultimately opted for a simpler approach.
In order to run this program, you'll need to have Java version 8 or higher installed on your computer.
To run the program, follow these steps:
- Open a command prompt or terminal window.
- Navigate to the directory containing the program file, MostFrequentLetter.java.
- Compile the program by entering the command javac MostFrequentLetter.java.
- Run the program by entering the command java MostFrequentLetter.
- The program will download the webpage and output the letter that starts the most words.
Overall, this program provides a straightforward and efficient method for counting the frequency of letters that start words on a webpage. While there are certainly more advanced techniques that could be used for natural language processing, this simple approach should suffice for most purposes.