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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.

AB

Jun 6, 2019

Getting a bit more challenging than the earlier courses in the specialization. The exercises require more struggle, but all the information is there. Another step along the way. Thank you, Dr. Chuck!

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By Trivendram p

Mar 1, 2020

The course is very nice , The assingments of the course are very good and are very useful for the implication of the concepts learned from the classes .

By Arturo R

Apr 20, 2018

La especialización cada vez es más interesante. Conceptos presentados de manera clara y ejercicios completos que permiten poner en práctica lo aprendido.

By mostafa a s

Sep 17, 2017

i think this course is great but it needed a little more knowledge in web stuff overall it was well explained i didn't need to get knowledge from outside

By Mahamaro H A

Jul 8, 2017

i 've been always looking for a course on web scraping and this is my best one so far. although i am new to python...the lecture is quite easy to follow.

By AKHIL S

May 14, 2020

Very good course! Introduced me to web scraping an enriched me with the basics.

This is a good starting point for anyone who wants to learn web scraping.

By NG Y H

Nov 9, 2019

The class was well-taught and well-structured. The instructor was clear and the resources provided were very useful in helping me to learn the concepts.

By Oh K C ( O

Dec 9, 2018

Dr Chuck made a complex topic so easy to follow and understand. And making the codes and books accessible are just of enormous help! Thank you Dr Chuck!

By Priyabrata P

Jul 30, 2017

Really enjoyed it. Web crawling, XML and JSON parsing and a lot of other things that python can do in over the internet. Really great. Thanks Dr. Chuck.

By Kevin L

Feb 27, 2017

Wonderful course for anyone with zero prior coding experience, or those who know other languages but want a way to grasp the important basics of Python.

By Ateto E

Feb 8, 2017

I really enjoyed this class. Thee professor's way of teaching makes it very easy to understand python. I am looking forward to his other future classes

By chandrani t

Dec 24, 2016

This is best course for anyone who is learning programming. The course starts with the understanding of basics in programming followed by complex usage.

By DAVID E A

Sep 6, 2016

Learned a lot about Google and other APIs, and how to use them! Definitely helpful when learning about how to access and analyse important data sources!

By Ferenc C

Jan 20, 2016

The course provides useful knowledge. It's fun to learn with Dr. Chuck, he is a great teacher.

Thank you for all the knowledge, I will definitely use it.

By Feiyang N

Nov 21, 2015

The course is short but so much fun! I learned a lot from the course material as well as the interviews with those big names in CS. Great job, Dr Chuck!

By Isheeta S

Oct 29, 2023

It was mind opening, very well organised and the programs and tests were fun and interesting to do! I would definitely recommend you to do this course.

By Darrel S

Feb 13, 2021

Very interesting course. This shows some of the coding used by some of the big tech giants, and also gives an in depth explanation as to how APIs work.

By Faiz M

Dec 24, 2020

I loved learning this course, but one biggest hurdle for many students was topics like web scraping, which were hard to understand in a single lecture!

By Daniel A E L

Aug 5, 2020

Fantastic course! Dr. Chuck is an excellent professor! The course content is very deep, clearly exposed and very funny. I hope people could enjoy it!

By Juan G H M

Jul 28, 2020

Excelente curso que muestra como con un poco de conocimiento en Python se puede acceder a información en internet usando web scraping, xml, json o api.

By Victor M T S

Jun 25, 2020

Excelente curso, el profesor es de altísima calidad magistral, el curso es bastante bueno para aprender sobre la web y como acceder a ella desde Python

By Kasthuri A D G H

Apr 16, 2020

Superb course. Very harder considering the first 2 courses. I gave a lot of effort to complete the assignments and I studied a lot. Thank you so much!!

By Cathryn S

Feb 22, 2020

A good, simple review of the basic components of working with the web - REST, json, xml, http. Just a flavour, but gives you the tools to get started.

By Kelechi O

Sep 17, 2019

The course made use of learnings from previous courses, making the knowledge gained incrementally. As always Dr. Chuck is a great and humorous teacher.

By David K

Apr 22, 2019

Dr. Chuck is an excellent teacher. The example he gave are right to the point and are practical to use in real-life programming. Thank you Dr. Chuck.

By Jaco B

Dec 30, 2017

The assignments are getting a bit more complex. Good understanding of the data and how to cycle through it is now needed. Dr. Chuck explains very well.