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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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This course is really very useful.The effort given by Dr.Chuck is very appriciateable and this course is very interesting as well because many great programmer told their history of discovered thing.

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By Tarun A (

Mar 25, 2020

Course Content helps you to get a feel of dealing with XML and JSON data using python. Lectures as always are inte

By Andrzej B

Oct 22, 2019

Great course. In a clear, interesting, concise way makes good starting point for using Python in web applications.

By Aanchal

Aug 28, 2019

Great course, very simple to drive and would recommend to add more assignments and real time application examples.

By Haris M

Dec 26, 2017

Unlike the first two courses, this one was a bit advanced and really gave a good understanding of the web services

By Michael S

Sep 17, 2017

Very informative, gave simple explanations and interesting assignments for working with different data structures.

By Imteaz S

Aug 15, 2017

Dr Chuck was able to succinctly explain the topics and walk the student through his program and thought processes.

By K W

Apr 28, 2017

I am upset that I can't complete this specialization for free but oh well. Thank you Dr. Chuck for your hard work.

By anmol g

Nov 5, 2015

Almost to the end of the course. Great coursework. I am enjoying every second of your videos. Thank you very much.

By Shahariar C

Aug 19, 2024

Thanks, I'm already a somewhat experienced python user. But I really loved getting into the basics again. Thanks.

By Leandro C V

Feb 3, 2021

Great course for expanding knowledge of Python. Dr. Chuck makes the material easy to understand and entertaining.

By Devendra S

Sep 29, 2020

it's a really good course how the data moves from server to server and how python is useful to extract this data.

By Amrit R

Sep 7, 2020

Nice course, even if the assignments are difficult at times in this one, but still good and Dr. Chuck is awesome.

By Manuel A M R

Jul 31, 2020

Es muy bueno el curso. Fácil de seguir y es fácil de aprender siguiendo los vídeos y actividades. Muy recomendado

By Jambuvant K

Jul 14, 2020

The course illustrates different strategies to extract the web data using python and is taught in very lucid way.

By Soroush N

Jun 22, 2020

If there was more explanation of API, I would be more happy. However, overall it was a good course. Thanks Chuck.

By Ritik K

Jun 22, 2020

it was great learning with you and your team who all are involved in this making is course great and informative.

By David J

Jun 12, 2020

Great Course to learn the basics on extracting data from the web, covers a wide arrange of topics on the subject.

By Scotty L

Feb 1, 2020

Great course as the former ones in the specialization, and appreciation to Pro Chuck for the knowledge he taught.

By Bogdan C

Nov 5, 2019

Although for personal reasons I did not get to finish the course, it is a great course and I highly recommend it.

By Sarah H H

Mar 7, 2019

really enjoyed this class. wish it went more into the technical aspects of all the code, but overall great intro!

By Ian S

May 2, 2018

Excellent course, great for getting a handle on how to reach out to the net for data and work with JSON, XML etc.

By Carlos E

Sep 26, 2017

Great content and exercises, for those looking on getting information from the web this is a good starting point.

By Ashish K

Sep 18, 2017

Awesome and quite a comprehensive course with the complex and important topics taught with much ease by Dr. Chuck

By Ji-Young K

Aug 14, 2016

I absolutely loved this course. I really enjoyed the course material and the instructor was always very engaging!

By Louis P

Feb 15, 2016

easy to follow course. I've learned so much following these, the increments in learning are manageable each week.