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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 Lara H

Mar 10, 2017

The assignments are just difficult to solidify understanding without becoming frustrating or getting stuck. The mentors are very helpful and quick to respond.

By Pamela U A

Feb 21, 2017

I like the teaching style. I have learned how to do web scraping, parsing json and APIs. Reading the book was very helpful in addition to the lecture videos.

By Igor M

Jan 13, 2016

Awesome level of teaching by Dr. Chuck, many valuable theory about web. Interesting tasks. May be the best course within whole specialization. Thanks so much!

By Matt B

Dec 6, 2015

This course teaches the "why" and the "what" as well as the "how" to gather data from around the web. Particularly excellent is the web service through API's.

By Alicia S

Jun 16, 2022

Me gustó mucho el curso sin embargo las últimas dos semanas fueron dificiles para mi.

I really like this course however I felt frustrated the last two weeks.

By Ng Y S

Nov 15, 2020

The lectures given by Dr Chuck are very comprehensive and informative, and the Graded Assignments are well designed and I have learnt a lot from this course.

By Ayush R

Jul 12, 2020

I am pretty happy with the course. It would be great if you could add another section to teach how to scrap webpages which use javascript to handle requests.

By Louise M

Jun 8, 2020

I enjoyed the course, although sometimes I felt a bit lost. It was a great introduction to accessing web data, and the difficulty level was just about right.

By Roger R

Oct 20, 2019

@DrChuck does a great job of teaching core concepts, building on them, and then giving fun exercises to put it all together. I highly recommend this course.

By Yin X

Jul 16, 2018

This course is a little hard for real beginners, but I couldn't imagine a better way to explain the concepts to dummies. Thanks Dr. Chuck. I will keep going.

By Derek D

Mar 29, 2018

Dr. Chuck is the one. Down to earth, knowledgeable, with a great sense of humor. He is inspirational and helps me learn more in the wonderful world of python

By Bruno L

Aug 6, 2017

Good introduction to Python access to Web Data. The explanation is clear and concise, the code examples are very well-structured and useful after the course.

By Joonsang J

Jul 27, 2017

Awesome course!! The course was somewhat easy, but I learned a lot through taking this course!

I think I will probably enroll Dr.Chuck's another class again!

By Hsien L K

Dec 6, 2015

Dr. Chuck is so nice and this course will not even be boring bcs of his fabulous teaching! Really learn a lot of useful stuff of Python after this class set!

By Srivathsa K N

Aug 23, 2022

Great Course. I enjoyed my entry into the world of APIs, JSON. This course is paced well and gives you a sense of accomplishment at the end of the course.

By Muhammad R

Dec 14, 2020

Thank you, Dr Chuck, I've learnt a lot throughout these courses enhance my programming skills in python looking forward to taking more courses Thanks again.

By Upendra B A

Sep 22, 2020

Coming from zero background in web, I am truly loaded with lots of stuff about web, data, serialization etc. It was very interesting to learn these skills.

By Abhinandan D

May 26, 2020

This is certainly a good course to learn web-scraping from scratch to an intermediate level. I would recommend the course to the people who are enthusiasts.

By Usama B

May 8, 2020

It was quite knowledgeable course, I have learnt so much from this course, accessing data from internet and working on that. it was quite difficult as well.

By Simaab A

Mar 31, 2020

Loved this course as it provided hands on experience on scraping web data of different format like html, json, xml . Would definitely recommend this course.

By Edgar V

Sep 12, 2019

Enjoyable course, I found good challenges with assessments, especially one before last one. It really turned me to make more effort thinking. Nice course!!!

By TEJAS P

Nov 24, 2018

It was great experience , easy to understand and easy to learn , I am feeling glad to be a student of prof. Dr. Chuck, thank you sir and thank you COURSERA.

By Pathan N

Dec 22, 2016

Awesome..Awesome..Awesome..!!

Those who are wishing to learn python, this the one of best opportunity. Just grab it :)

Lot of Thanks to @CharlesSeverance.

By Kavindira A

Jul 8, 2016

The instructors breaks every concept into easily comprehensible bits, so the next time you resume learning you build off a firm understanding. Great course.

By Dave C

Dec 26, 2015

Very accessible and a clearly knowledgeable professor. Materials and pace is great for a beginner to programming or someone looking to learn a new language.