Word Counter

Word Counter terminal application, Mar. 3, 2020

By Benjamin Thom

Description

An application that gathers both a word and sentence from a user, then checks how frequently the word appears in the sentence (checks for full word matches only).

Project Specifications

Behavior	Input	Output
A user inputs a sentence and the application collects the response	"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"	"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
The application converts the user's sentence into an array of strings	"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"	{ "the", "quick", "brown", "fox", "jumps", "over", "the", "lazy", "dog" }
A user inputs a word and the application collects the response and if the user's word is a full word match, the application displays the user word's frequency	"the"	"the"
The application calculates the frequency the user's word (full word matches only) within the user's sentence	"the", "the"	2
A user inputs a word and the application collects the response and if the user's word is not included in the user's sentence or is a partial match, the application displays a word frquency of 0	user sentence: "there are big mountains in Montana", user word: "the"	0

Setup/Installation Requirements

In Terminal:

Navigate to where you want this application to be saved, i.e.: cd desktop
Clone the file from GitHub with HTTPS git clone https://github.com/benjamin-thompdx/WordCounter.Solution.git
Open file in your preferred text editor
On Mac: open -a {your text editor} WordCounter.Solution
On Windows: WordCounter.Solution

Download Manually:

Navigate to https://github.com/benjamin-thompdx/WordCounter.Solution.
Click the green "Clone or Download" button.
Click "Download ZIP".
Click downloaded file to unzip.
Open folder called "WordCounter.Solution".

Note For Editors:

Download the .NET Core SDK Software Development Kit
Open the .Net Core SDK file and install
To confirm installation was successful, run the $ dotnet --version command in your terminal
Install dotnet script, run the $ dotnet tool install -g dotnet-script command in your terminal
Restart your terminal to complete installation, and run the $ dotnet run command to run application within your terminal - Note: To exit, simply press Ctrl + C

Known Bugs

No known bugs at this time.

Support and contact details

Have a bug or an issue with this application? Open a new issue here on GitHub.

Technologies Used

Git
C#
.NET Core 2.2
dotnet script
VS Code

License

This webpage is licensed under the MIT license.

benjamin-thompdx/WordCounter.Solution