Readability Score provides an opportunity to develop skills in calling programs from the command-line and gain more experience using regexes and the Math class.
Readability Algorithms:
Automated Readability Index
Flesch–Kincaid
SMOG
Coleman–Liau
Code sample:
> java Main in.txt
The text is:
This is the front page of the Simple English Wikipedia. Wikipedias are places where people work together to write encyclopedias in different languages. We use Simple English words and grammar here. The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone! That includes children and adults who are learning English. There are 142,262 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia. All of the pages are free to use. They have all been published under both the Creative Commons License and the GNU Free Documentation License. You can help here! You may change these pages and make new pages. Read the help pages and other good pages to learn how to write pages here. If you need help, you may ask questions at Simple talk. Use Basic English vocabulary and shorter sentences. This allows people to understand normally complex terms or phrases.
Words: 137
Sentences: 14
Characters: 687
Syllables: 210
Polysyllables: 17
Enter the score you want to calculate (ARI, FK, SMOG, CL, all): all
Automated Readability Index: 7.08 (about 13-year-olds).
Flesch–Kincaid readability tests: 6.31 (about 12-year-olds).
Simple Measure of Gobbledygook: 9.42 (about 15-year-olds).
Coleman–Liau index: 10.66 (about 17-year-olds).
This text should be understood in average by 14.25-year-olds.