Go, Undergrad project 1

Due: Tuesday Sept 18th

Summary: Go has enough interesting that it will take a little longer to get through all of the basics, but I want to give you a chance to dig in with a basic project right away, so here is this basic project.

Details:

Write a go program which:

• prompts the user to choose a text file (for simplicity, you may keep your files in your working directory).
• Once the user has chosen a file,
• open the file,
• read it in,
•  and count how many times each word is used.
• Finally, print out the list of words and their counts
• both to the standard output and to a file
• tell the user which file you wrote to.

For full credit, strip out the punctuation and other non-alphabetic characters before you count words. Or you can leave them in for a max grade of a B+

As one of your files, be sure to try your program on War and Peace, one of the bigger classics of recent years.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2600/2600-0.txt

Submission:

    zip up your go project with source files and at least two sample files. and submit via blackboard