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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 Mann L

Sep 18, 2016

One of the best courses that I've taken this year. The Ebook for the course is great.

By Karan R

Jul 14, 2016

A very good introductory course to learn web scraping. Awesome instructor, Dr. Chuck.

By Deleted A

Jun 17, 2016

Great contents and very simple presentation of materials that anyone can understand..

By Anand R

Apr 10, 2016

Excellent introductory course for python and web data with some really cool examples.

By Yujie C

Feb 18, 2016

awesome professor and course materials. Dr. Chuck explained the contents really well.

By Oluwabunmi M A

Jan 4, 2016

I learnt so much in this course just as in all the previous courses.

Thanks Dr. Chuck!

By Jon C

Oct 28, 2015

Really good course. I would prefer to have a bit more challenging assignments though.

By Georgi G

Mar 10, 2023

Amazing course, and thank you, Dr. Chuck, for delivering it so well. Very well done!

By Daksh P

Aug 25, 2022

This course is best. This is very helpful for me. Thank you for this amazing course.

By 思宇 王

May 17, 2021

still excellent experience like it was in the last two courses in this specification

By Dario P

Feb 25, 2021

Good introductory course to get familiar with the key approaches to access web data.

By Constanzo A M D

Jan 19, 2021

Good materials and nice examples. I'll keep on going with the entire specialization.

By Konstantinos V

Dec 16, 2020

This was one of the most amazing courses I've taken! Dr Chuck is always to the point

By SHREYA A S

Oct 20, 2020

Its one of the interesting course .All the topics are explained well upto the mark.

By Preetam B

Sep 14, 2020

Good explanations in entire course. Nice examples will details. Helpful assignments.

By Marco V G A

Aug 20, 2020

This was a new course for me, as I had never programmed this type of problem before.

By Akshay B

Aug 13, 2020

this couse is good . this course extract the information web site and using API key.

By Sayyid A S R

Jul 12, 2020

Great concepts provided by Dr. Chuck! I am using JSON concepts in my freelance work.

By SABUJA S P 1

Jul 10, 2020

I was new to Network Programming. But it was a great experience because of Dr.Chuck.

By Hao P

Jul 7, 2020

A lot of fundamental knowledge and skills of web access using python are introduced.

By ANAS I

Jun 20, 2020

DR.CHUCK IS REALLY AWESOME AND PERFECTLY GUIDE ME ABOUT THIS COURSE

I REALLY ENJOYED

By Saddam H

Jun 12, 2020

Great course to learn how to utilize the web services data/API (can be XML or JSON )

By Minhaj U A

Apr 10, 2020

I felt like I did some real work with programming in this course.

Very satisfactory.

By GABRIELE A

Mar 26, 2020

This course is really interesting and it involves operating across the real Network!

By Hrithik S

Nov 15, 2019

Course helped me achieve greater knowledge and improved my skills to a great extent.