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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 NA C

Dec 6, 2016

Useful,but not very deep.Succeeding in giving a general understanding of Python

By Dipu

Sep 26, 2016

very very impressive course, learn some interesting coding, concepts everyday !

By Pranav S K

Jun 24, 2020

It was good course to get a basic knowledge about web data access using python

By Danielle S

Jan 30, 2016

Wonderful lectures, excellent teacher, nice assignments, however bit too easy.

By M M

Jan 13, 2016

A 5 star for Dr.Chuck' teaching, however, some more problems could be given :)

By Usman Z

Jun 9, 2020

Course was very good, although pace was fast at the end with API and GeoJason

By Muthuprasath

Aug 7, 2016

Awesome starting point for whom wants to know about "web access using python"

By Vikrant K

Apr 29, 2021

The course is good and so is the instructor. He explains everything neatly!!

By Masirika T N

Sep 8, 2020

I had an issue with the last assignment but the course was very eductational

By Jinal S K

Jul 10, 2020

Nice course ,nicely explain all libraries used for web scraping using python

By piyush t

Jun 26, 2020

nice course

great thinking with make learners find api key in last assignment

By Himanshu M

Jun 15, 2020

An Introductory Course to relieve your fear while accessing web using Python

By Janhavi A

Jun 2, 2020

This was a challenging course, very well taught by the instructor Dr. Chuck.

By Nikhil R

May 29, 2020

Good

It would have been nice if explained some more internet terminologies .

By Brent T

Jan 16, 2020

A course well worth in taking. But insure you do readings prior to lectures.

By MS S R

May 7, 2019

Some more exercises for working with json based APIs would have been helpful

By MD N F

Jun 2, 2018

It was much harder than the previous two courses. It was like a sudden jump.

By Vicky

May 14, 2018

A bit hard to understand and many detailed things too general to be ignored.

By vamshikumar

Oct 31, 2017

The course is good for beginners. More advanced things could've been taught.

By Konstantinos P

Apr 11, 2016

Thing go deeper but you can also get the feeling i learned something usefull

By Samantha

Dec 29, 2015

If this course has given more related reading material, it would be perfect.

By Stuart L

Nov 25, 2015

It would be much better if the difficulty of programming homework is harder.

By Yorkys

Jul 4, 2021

Thank you for your useful knowledge. Any recommendation on Data and python?

By shivraj d

Jul 15, 2020

a very nice course for beginners and those who want to learn something new.

By MUHAMMAD A S

Jun 23, 2020

Really loved this course and the fact that there is a lot of hands-on work.