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About the Course

This course will show how one can treat the Internet as a source of data. We will scrape, parse, and read web data as well as access data using web APIs. We will work with HTML, XML, and JSON data formats in Python. This course will cover Chapters 11-13 of the textbook “Python for Everybody”. To succeed in this course, you should be familiar with the material covered in Chapters 1-10 of the textbook and the first two courses in this specialization. These topics include variables and expressions, conditional execution (loops, branching, and try/except), functions, Python data structures (strings, lists, dictionaries, and tuples), and manipulating files. This course covers Python 3....
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SM

Jun 18, 2020

This course was really interesting and did a good job introducing complicated topics in usefully simplified form. It was a pleasure to listen to the instructor and I got everything I wanted out of it.

DA

Apr 23, 2020

Great course. The lectures are clear and thorough. The assignments are challenging yet doable. The only thing I would like is to see more assignments to get more practice with the techniques learned.

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By Justin P

Aug 8, 2019

I've been working through the full py4e specialization and it's been great so far.

By Willem N

Jun 25, 2019

I never imagined I could learn how to learn to do these things. It's an adventure!

By Derek C

May 15, 2019

Great class, practical content you can use in structured format that is to digest.

By Alex B

Oct 19, 2018

I'm loving it so far! A couple of exercises were confusing but i'm learning a lot!

By Brooke K

Jun 29, 2018

Excellent introduction to Python, especially for those who are new to programming!

By M M

Jun 8, 2018

Great course. Really liked the manner in which it was presented. Awesome examples.

By Lee P B J

Oct 27, 2017

Starting to get pretty challenging, but very good instruction for an online class!

By Daniel F G

Oct 14, 2017

I learnt a lot, Python is a great and friendly tool to solve problems really fast.

By Josie M

May 24, 2017

Great course and easy to learn from. I would highly recommend, even for beginners.

By Iavor D

Feb 24, 2016

Very interesting course and manageable and understandable content and curriculum.

By Erfan S

Feb 1, 2016

I've started using web crawling to manage my telegram channel.

Thanks Dr. Chuck :-)

By Octavio F M

Jan 17, 2016

An amazing course to learn how to program with Python accessing data from the Web.

By Joe S

Dec 22, 2023

Clear and simple explanation of the very basics of using python to access the web

By Thomas B

Jul 18, 2023

Great course! I enjoyed the mix of great instruction and challenging assignments.

By Howard K

Dec 5, 2022

Another great course by Dr Chuck. A resource of more practice tuts would be nice.

By George Z

Nov 20, 2021

I am very thankful for Dr. Chuck, He does great effort in this Course as the rest

By Sergio A I L

May 15, 2021

Maybe the course could contain more information, maybe animations, of XML or JSON

By Chengyi L

Feb 23, 2021

Nice introducing lecture for learning using python also python to access web data

By David B

Oct 1, 2020

Course is great. The graders and assistants are unnecessarily rude and unhelpful.

By Kedar N

Sep 24, 2020

great course for aspiring web data scientists as it provides many required skills

By Tanvir A

Jul 29, 2020

More desired One. and day by day i am fallen love with programming. thank Dr chuk

By Pratik P

Jul 7, 2020

Dr. Chuck, Why you so awesome? (Here, "?" doesn't stand for "if".

You are awesome.

By Siddhesh D

May 19, 2020

This one was a little bit tough than previous courses but a lot more interesting.

By Sheverdin G A

Apr 17, 2020

The course is not bad but I still don't understand what for are these knowledges?

By Larry K

Aug 5, 2019

This is a challenging course. It provides a thorough introduction to the topic.