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10. Project Austen

Tim Lavers1  
(1)
Woonona, NSW, Australia
 
The previous chapters have given us enough basic skills to start on the first of our programming projects. The goal of this project will be to make a statistical analysis of the novels of Jane Austen. For each of Austen’s major works, we will calculate

  • The number of words in the book

  • The set of distinct words

  • Frequency histograms of word usage

This project introduces two of the cornerstones of modern software engineering: Object-Oriented Programming and Unit Testing .

10.1 Object-Oriented Programming

Object-Oriented Programming, ...

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