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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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The course teaches the basics of how to interact with the internet using Python. The course is simple, well explained, has great interviews with people who were part of the creation of the internet.

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interesting course. well structured and paced with practical real-life examples and clear study materials. i strongly recommend this course for anyone considering learning python. Thank you Dr. Chuck!

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By Patricia L

Nov 23, 2020

Very well explained, perhaps it would be nice to have more assignments so more can be practiced.

By Prashant

Aug 22, 2020

Good content and supportive study material and resources like codes are very useful

great course.

By Nguyen V L

Apr 16, 2020

This course provides some of the basic knowledge of how to use python to interact with internet.

By Guo H

Feb 26, 2017

There's in a change in the way of presenting the course. I prefer the previous 2 section though.

By Mina T

Sep 17, 2020

good course. Accessing web data is necessary for furthering your career in backend developement

By Pavithra

Aug 13, 2020

best to be here and learnt some of the most interseting things that can be done by using python

By ONGOLU V P R

Jul 26, 2020

this course is very awesome, you can know a lot about how python can be used to access web data

By Mukund P

Aug 25, 2018

very helpful and easy to understand. This has given a platform from where you can explore more.

By Yaqian W

Jun 25, 2020

Overall very informative, but some course contents are not sufficient to crack the assignment.

By Ashvin S

Jul 15, 2017

The assignments could've been a bit more complex but the lecture videos were really insightful

By Clemens T

Apr 15, 2016

The form of presentation in the previous courses (video and slides simultanously) were better.

By fengchunjin

Nov 20, 2015

I learn this class ,the exercise is very easy and do not takes pain to try for it.

Just so easy

By TANYA G

Jan 3, 2021

The last assignment was a bit less informative, but else was very good and understandable....

By Mingyang L

Aug 23, 2020

The course is good, but please make the instructions of each assignments more understandable.

By Caroline

Oct 31, 2019

Very good course, although I found it a little bit difficult to understand web data and APIs.

By Lyu R

Aug 11, 2019

In last two weeks, there are some new knowledge in assignments but not mentioned in lectures.

By Vay R

Nov 27, 2018

Tough class to fully understand. Had to read the book in addition to the videos to get it all

By 梁司其

Aug 29, 2016

Really a nice course! Dr. Chuck makes it easy to use Python to access web data! Thanks a lot!

By Ioannis G

Dec 24, 2015

Well done Professor Chuck and team! thank you once more for this awesome learning experience!

By Nhat D M

Dec 3, 2015

Pretty interesting course, in which I gained a lot of knowledge about access web with Python.

By SAUMITRA S

May 9, 2020

A very well structured course and I have to say Dr.chuck is the best mentor I have ever had.

By JF

Aug 27, 2017

Useful course for understanding the Python skills as well as the basic principles of the web

By 刘洋

Aug 16, 2017

我很高兴自己能完成这个课程。 反复循环进行的课程对于时间有限的我来说十分重要,经过两轮课程,终于完成了所有的课堂和作业。 如果可能的话,希望字幕能尽快补全,英文阅读也不错,只是太慢了。

By Angus

Jan 2, 2017

This was a easy to follow introduction to some python libraries used to access web services.

By alexandra.wang

Dec 17, 2016

including beautifulsoup, parsing html,xml and json. good course of basic level for beginners