Learn to Use Basic Data Structures - Slices, Structs and Maps in Golang

• Read text from a file and split into words.
• Introduction to slices / lists.
• Count total number of words (len function).
• Read text from the terminal.
• Get count of a specific word by searching.
• Cleanup and normalize strings (ReplaceAll, ToLower, Peek at regexes).
• Introduction to structs.
• Get count for every word by using a naive search approach.
• Sort elements in a slice / list.
• Introduction to maps.
• Get count for every word by using an efficient lookup approach.
• Use time package for measuring processing duration.

Sample input text in txt files is from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese