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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 Saurabh S

Feb 6, 2016

special thanks to Dr chuck

And a request for office hours in INDIA.

May be I will get a chance to meet him.

I will be very thankful.

By Al F

Dec 20, 2015

I found the course most enjoyable and the material all meat and no fluff - it taught exactly what it set out to teach - impressed

By dorris l

Nov 19, 2020

I love Dr. Chuck, I love Python, I love Coursera, I love DOST Caraga. Thank you for this opportunity. This is a great blessing.

By Srishti M

Aug 7, 2020

I absolutely loved this course! The way that it was structured and taught was excellent. Would definitely recommend this course.

By Abdesamed B

Jun 10, 2020

Great course, learned a lot about how the internet actually works, and how to send and receive data using different applications

By Ran L

Mar 26, 2020

I hope there could be more assignments for practice.Anyway,this course is awesome!I learned some pratical skills in this course.

By Mehregan K

Sep 27, 2019

If you wanna learn how to parse HTML, XML, JSON and get started with web scraping to access data, this is a good starting point.

By Eugene B

Jan 8, 2019

Great introduction to accessing web data. Won't make you an expert, but definitely puts you on the right footing to get started.

By Harwin C M

Mar 31, 2018

The course really guides the student and explains every bit of detail. I would recommend this course to my students and friends.

By Hassan R

Jul 16, 2017

I can just say thanks a million Coursera team and especially Dr.Chuck.

I really got something i wanted to get.

kind regards

Hassan

By Чижов В Б

Jul 9, 2017

A great, very interesting course! The presentation of the material is fascinating. It will not be boring. Many thanks, Dr. Chuck

By 房彦甫

Oct 30, 2016

i would like to recommend it to my friends and my classmates, it is a great course that deserve your attention, do not waste it!

By Hasan B K

Sep 30, 2016

I like the style of Charles Severance. I really enjoy his lectures and learned lots of things. Thanks Mr. Severance and Coursera

By Albert F

Jul 21, 2016

This course helped me to understand a lot of things, and gave me the knowledge to create my own web scrapper tool for my web app

By Rajendra K

Jul 3, 2016

Great Course!

Built a Instagram Bot and WhatsApp bot for personal user after completing this course

Awesome

Thanks a lot Dr. Chuck

By Guilherme A L

Aug 4, 2022

Great course with a lots of information, not only on Python, but on web development in general (ie. HTML, HTTP, XML, JSON etc).

By Ahmed Y

Jul 16, 2021

Great course , Assignments are really at the suitable level to learn the skill and the explanation of Dr.Chuck was really good

By Mauricio A O S

Nov 27, 2020

Excelente curso, he aprendido cosas muy interesantes sobre la adquisición de datos desde Internet y para su posterior análisis.

By Syed M

Jul 12, 2020

Amazing class with an amazing professor as usual. Learned a lot and was really challenging, but really fun. Highly recommend!!!

By AAKASH S

Jun 5, 2020

This course made me learn a lot and really helped me get started with different kinds of stuff. Thanks a lot for this course!!!

By Rahul S P

May 7, 2020

The course was tough, but dr. manage beautifully, the assignemnts were tough and ............lot to say

thank you for the course

By Nawaz S

Apr 17, 2020

It helps you to go with a great process of understanding the use of python for accessing web data. And a lot for stuff in deep.

By Robert K

Feb 4, 2020

Charles is the best. Very good, real life, examples. I haven't coded in about 20 years, but picked up Python really quickly.

By Anil K

Jun 8, 2019

The good thing about this course is that it gives you idea of various libraries used to interact and extract data over network.

By Mani S

Feb 15, 2018

Great way to learn python to access web data. At least I can now start to the knowledge from this course to real time scenarios