diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e66b725..5c3991d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,18 @@
     <groupId>io.zipcoder</groupId>
     <artifactId>collections</artifactId>
     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>1.7</source>
+                    <target>1.7</target>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
 
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/ParenChecker.java b/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/ParenChecker.java
index caee675..0f935dc 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/ParenChecker.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/ParenChecker.java
@@ -1,4 +1,55 @@
 package io.zipcoder;
 
+
+import java.util.Stack;
+
+//1.Create a class with a method that verifies all parens () are paired. HINT: Use a stack.
 public class ParenChecker {
+
+    Stack<Character> stack = new Stack<Character>();
+
+    public ParenChecker() {
+
+    }
+
+    public boolean parenChecker(String value) {
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < value.length(); i++) {
+            char c = value.charAt(i);
+            if (c == '(') {
+                stack.push(c);
+            } else if (c == ')') {
+                if (stack.isEmpty()) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+                stack.pop();
+            }
+
+        }
+        return stack.isEmpty();
+    }
+
+
+    public boolean pairParen(String value) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < value.length(); i++) {
+            char c = value.charAt(i);
+            if (c == '(' || c == '[' || c == '<' || c == '{' || c == '\'' || c == '\"') {
+                stack.push(c);
+            } else if (c == ')' || c == ']' || c == '>' || c == '}' || c == '\'' || c == '\"') {
+                if (stack.isEmpty()) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+                char lastValue = stack.peek();
+                if (c == ')' && lastValue == '(' || c == '>' && lastValue == '<' || c == '"' && lastValue == '"' || c == '\'' && lastValue == '\'') {
+                    stack.pop();
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return stack.isEmpty();
+    }
 }
+
+//PseudoCode
+//the lastValue equals the stack.peek(); the peek: Looks at the object at the top of this stack without removing it
+//from the stack.
+
diff --git a/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/WC.java b/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/WC.java
index babb68c..4ab81b9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/WC.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/zipcoder/WC.java
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.FileReader;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.Scanner;
+import java.util.*;
 
 public class WC {
     private Iterator<String> si;
+    private TreeMap<String, Integer> map = new TreeMap<String, Integer>();
 
     public WC(String fileName) {
         try {
@@ -18,6 +18,46 @@ public WC(String fileName) {
     }
 
     public WC(Iterator<String> si) {
+
         this.si = si;
     }
+
+    public Map<String, Integer> count(){
+        while(si.hasNext()){
+            String[] characters = si.next().replaceAll("\\W", "").toLowerCase().split(" ");
+            for(int i = 0; i<characters.length; i++){
+                increment(map, characters[i]);
+            }
+        }
+        return map;
+    }
+
+    public void increment(Map<String, Integer> map, String index){
+        Integer counter = map.get(index);
+        if(counter==null){
+            counter = 0;
+        }
+        map.put(index, counter + 1);
+    }
+
+    public String displayMap(){
+        Collections.sort(Map,(o1, o2) -> o2.getValue().compareTo(o1.getValue()));
+
+
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+        sb.append("Count in descending order: \n");
+        for(String index : map.keySet()){
+            sb.append("\t"+index + ": " + map.get(index) +"\n");
+        }
+        return sb.toString()
+
+    }
 }
+//PseudoCode
+//create a counter
+//loop through si
+//and make all words characters except symbols and numbers and all lowercase
+
+//Actual Code Explanation
+//Create a treemap up top, it holds the keys (index) and the value(word)
+//
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diff --git a/src/main/resources/someTextFile.txt b/src/main/resources/someTextFile.txt
index e69de29..2c2dc33 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/someTextFile.txt
+++ b/src/main/resources/someTextFile.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+TWO TRAMPS
+
+
+A man and a boy were ascending a steep street in a country town in
+eastern New York. The man was tall and dark-complexioned, with a
+sinister look which of itself excited distrust. He wore a slouch hat,
+which, coming down over his forehead, nearly concealed from view his
+low, receding brow. A pair of black, piercing eyes looked out from
+beneath the brim. The first impression produced upon those who met him
+was that he was of gypsy blood, and the impression was a correct one.
+Where he was born no one seemed to know; perhaps he did not himself
+know, for all his life he had been a wanderer, but English was the
+tongue which he spoke, and, apart from the gypsy dialect, he knew no
+other.
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diff --git a/src/main/resources/testFile.txt b/src/main/resources/testFile.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..00ec727
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/testFile.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+yolo yolo rolly polo
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diff --git a/src/test/java/io/zipcoder/ParenCheckerTest.java b/src/test/java/io/zipcoder/ParenCheckerTest.java
index 76aa3b6..1e10cf4 100644
--- a/src/test/java/io/zipcoder/ParenCheckerTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/io/zipcoder/ParenCheckerTest.java
@@ -3,6 +3,47 @@
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
 public class ParenCheckerTest {
 
+    @Test
+    public void testParenChecker(){
+        //Given
+        ParenChecker parenChecker = new ParenChecker();
+        String value = "I rock (rough) and stuff with my (afro) puffs!";
+        //When
+        boolean pairParen = parenChecker.parenChecker(value);
+        Assert.assertTrue(pairParen);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testParenChecker2(){
+        //Given
+        ParenChecker parenChecker = new ParenChecker();
+        String value = "{(/)}<";
+        //When
+        boolean pairParen = parenChecker.parenChecker(value);
+        Assert.assertTrue(pairParen);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testPairParen(){
+        //Given
+        ParenChecker parenTest = new ParenChecker();
+        String value = "I love <TDD> so much";
+        //When
+        Assert.assertTrue(parenTest.pairParen(value));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testPairParen2(){
+        //Given
+        ParenChecker parenTest = new ParenChecker();
+        String value = "<Zip Code Wilmington> pow (pow)";
+        //When
+        Assert.assertTrue(parenTest.pairParen(value));
+    }
+
+
 }
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diff --git a/src/test/java/io/zipcoder/WCTest.java b/src/test/java/io/zipcoder/WCTest.java
index 895e831..cc1a051 100644
--- a/src/test/java/io/zipcoder/WCTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/io/zipcoder/WCTest.java
@@ -7,5 +7,121 @@
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
 public class WCTest {
+    @Test
+    public void count(){
+        WC wc = new WC("/Users/katricewilliams-dredden/Dev/CR-MesoLabs-Collections-EncapsulativeCharacters/src/main/resources/someTextFile.txt");
+        wc.count();
+        String expected = "Count in descending order: \n" +
+
+            "\ta: 9\n"+
+            "\tall: 1\n" +
+            "\tand: 3\n" +
+            "\tand,: 1\n" +
+            "\tapart: 1\n" +
+            "\tascending: 1\n" +
+            "\tbeen: 1\n" +
+            "\tbeneath: 1\n" +
+            "\tblack,: 1\n" +
+            "\tblood,: 1\n" +
+            "\tborn: 1\n" +
+            "\tboy: 1\n" +
+            "\tbrim.: 1\n" +
+            "\tbrow.: 1\n" +
+            "\tbut: 1\n" +
+            "\tcoming: 1\n" +
+            "\tconcealed: 1\n" +
+            "\tcorrect: 1\n" +
+            "\tcountry: 1\n" +
+            "\tdark-complexioned,: 1\n" +
+            "\tdialect,: 1\n" +
+            "\tdid: 1\n" +
+            "\tdistruct.: 1\n" +
+            "\tdown: 1\n" +
+            "\teastern: 1\n" +
+            "\tenglish: 1\n" +
+            "\texcited: 1\n" +
+            "\teyes: 1\n" +
+            "\tfirst: 1\n" +
+            "\tfor: 1\n" +
+            "\tforehead: 1\n" +
+            "\tfrom: 3\n" +
+            "\tgypsy: 2\n" +
+            "\thad: 1\n" +
+            "\that,: 1\n" +
+            "\the: 7\n" +
+            "\thim: 1\n" +
+            "\thimself: 1\n" +
+            "\this: 3\n" +
+            "\timpression: 2\n" +
+            "\tin: 2\n" +
+            "\titself: 1\n" +
+            "\tknew: 1\n" +
+            "\tknow,: 1\n" +
+            "\tknow;: 1\n" +
+            "\tlife: 1\n" +
+            "\tlook: 1\n" +
+            "\tlooked: 1\n" +
+            "\tlow,: 1\n" +
+            "\tman: 2\n" +
+            "\tmet: 1\n" +
+            "\tnearly: 1\n" +
+            "\tnew: 1\n" +
+            "\tno: 2\n" +
+            "\tnot: 1\n" +
+            "\tof: 3\n" +
+            "\tone: 1\n" +
+            "\tother.: 1\n" +
+            "\tout: 1\n" +
+            "\tover: 1\n" +
+            "\tpair: 1\n" +
+            "\tperhaps: 1\n" +
+            "\tpiercing: 1\n" +
+            "\tproduced: 1\n" +
+            "\treceding: 1\n" +
+            "\tseemed: 1\n" +
+            "\tsinister: 1\n" +
+            "\tslouch: 1\n" +
+            "\tspoke,: 1\n" +
+            "\tsteep: 1\n"  +
+            "\tstreet: 1\n" +
+            "\ttall: 1\n" +
+            "\tthat: 1\n" +
+            "\tthe: 6\n" +
+            "\tthose: 1\n" +
+            "\tto: 1\n" +
+            "\ttongue: 1\n" +
+            "\ttown: 1\n" +
+            "\ttramps: 1\n" +
+            "\ttwo: 1\n" +
+            "\tupon: 1\n" +
+            "\tview: 1\n" +
+            "\twanderer,: 1\n" +
+            "\twas: 6\n" +
+            "\twere: 1\n" +
+            "\twhere: 1\n" +
+            "\twhich: 2\n" +
+            "\twhich,: 1\n" +
+            "\twho: 1\n" +
+            "\twith: 1\n" +
+            "\twore: 1\n" +
+            "\tyork: 1\n";
+
+
+        String actual = wc.displayMap();
+        Assert.assertEquals(expected, actual);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void displayMap(){
+        WC wc = new WC("/Users/katricewilliams-dredden/Dev/CR-MesoLabs-Collections-EncapsulativeCharacters/src/main/resources/testFile.txt");
+        wc.count();
+        String expected = "Count in descending order: \n" +
+                "\tpolo: 1\n" +
+                "\trolly: 1\n" +
+                "\tyolo: 2\n";
+        String actual = wc.displayMap();
+        Assert.assertEquals(expected, actual);
+
+    }
 
 }
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