SwiftCollections

This project will help you practice the skills and concepts you learned related to strings in Swift. For this project you'll build an app with a text field for the user to enter a word. When they tap the button, the app will look for synonyms for the entered word, and will display them in a text view if any are found.

A synonym is a word with the same meaning as another word. For example, difficult and hard are synonyms.

Create an Xcode Project

Create a new Xcode project
Name the project "Thesaurus"
Make sure you select Swift as the development language

Add UI Elements to Main.storyboard

Open the app's Main.storyboard file.
Add a text field to the main screen
Add a button to the main screen
Make the button's title "Show Synonyms"
Add a text view to the screen.
Use the Add Missing Constraints option to make sure everything is properly constrained

Create Actions and Outlets

Create an IBAction for the button in ViewController.swift
Create IBOutlets for both the text field and the text view in ViewController.swift

Write A Thesaurus Lookup Function

Create a new file called "Thesaurus.swift"
Create a variable that is a dictionary where each key is a word, and each value is an array of strings that are synonyms of the key word. If you need help getting started, you can copy and paste the list found here. Feel free to add any additional words that you'd like.
In this file, create a function called synonyms(for:). It should take a single string as an argument, and return an optional array of Strings.
Write the synonyms(for:) function. It should return an array of strings that are synonyms for the passed in string, or nil if there are no synonyms.

Implement The User Interface

In the action for the "Show Synonyms" button, get the string entered in the text field, look up synonyms for it using your synonyms(for:) function, and if any synonyms are found, display them in the text view.

Build, Run, and Test Your App

Build and run your app using the simulator
Enter various words, including those you know are in your synonyms directory, and others that aren't into the text field and make sure the synonym listing works.

Bonus

If you finish and want another challenge try making it so that if a word that is not a key for the dictionary, but which is a value is entered, that all its sibling synonyms are found and returned.

For example, if your synonyms dictionary were:

let synonyms = ["learn" : ["determine", "master", "study", "get", "grasp"]]

and the user entered "study", the app should output "determine", "master", "get", "grasp", and "learn".

If this is the desired behavior does it make sense to continue using a dictionary to store the lists of synonyms, or would an array or other arrangement make more sense?

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