Project Description
Background
When typewriters first became common in the 1800s, the QWERTY keyboard was designed to help alleviate jams with the keys. The idea was to space out common letter combinations and to alternate the hand that was used to type the letters. Common keys such as A and E were also placed at easier locations compared to keys such as Q and Z.
Over time, the English language has changed, so is the keyboard still laid out in an optimal pattern for common letters?
Your Task
To find out, you are going to read in a text file in and count the number of occurrences of each letter from a-z (ignoring capitalization). Once you finished that, you are going to print out a histogram of the results. For example:
A: ****
B: *
C: *
D: ******
E: **
To print the histogram, you want to benchmark the highest value letter at 10 stars and calculate the value of each star based on that number.