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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 Haytham A

Oct 26, 2015

I think this specialization is the perfect entry point for programming newbies like myself...

By ambrose a

Nov 2, 2020

for a person learning to code for the first time, this course is awesome, easy to understand

By Gayatri M D

Jul 12, 2020

Very good and interesting course and the instructor is also very good in his teaching skills

By JOSEF Z

Jun 9, 2020

very nice course to quickly provide the basic understanding needed to pull data from the web

By Sudhanshu G

May 29, 2020

Very well structured course, professor has done an excellent job in explaining the concepts.

By Geoff G

May 2, 2020

Excellent teaching methodology, good solved examples ,the discussion forms were also helpful

By Dhrishaj G

Apr 28, 2020

Really good course. Only could use a video on how to install the bs4 library and pip install

By Harshit C

Apr 4, 2020

An extraordinary course I loved the way it was thought and I am glad to learn more like this

By Akash K S

Feb 16, 2020

I'd love the easy way you teach. I would love to meet you in personal and work with you sir.

By Fanus A

Dec 19, 2019

Great course. Great material. Motivational, Inspirational and engaging.

Thank you Dr. Chuck.

By Fangni T

Sep 11, 2019

Great course! It's little bit harder than I thought. I spend 2 hours for each hw in average.

By Abhinav A

Aug 30, 2018

Excellent assignments problems were there ,which helped to understand concept in better way.

By Lokesh H

Sep 14, 2017

this is nice course and i am learning these new things in this course

thank you coursera.org

By Dushyant S K

May 22, 2017

awesome course, Very helpful and Dr Chuck was great he taught each and everything very well.

By XU K

May 7, 2017

THANKS FOR TEACHER Charles Severance,it's a good teacher even i watch him through the screen

By Leihua Y

Mar 8, 2016

This course sequence is one of the best. It really helps me to build up python from scratch.

By Pan L

Feb 24, 2016

It's an excellent course/specialization for a programming starter form Dr. Chuck.

Really thx.

By Lance D

Jan 23, 2016

Dr. Chuck in one of the best profs I've ever had, even though I've never actually met him...

By Andres F A H

Jan 9, 2016

It is a really good course, the video classes are really clear and the topic is very useful.

By Urivan F

Dec 7, 2015

Great course with ready to run exercises which can be customized very quickly to your needs.

By Cat W

Nov 4, 2023

Dr. Chuck has the most kindest teaching and because of him I am not afraid of code anymore!

By Kamal R

Nov 12, 2021

Learnt a lot of information, that I can use for my work too. Its great even for tech guys.

By Bruna R

May 17, 2021

I am really learning a lot in this spezialization course, looking forward for the next step

By Marcin S

Feb 13, 2021

Great course with all the information needed to get you started with web scraping and more!

By Dsouza S A

Nov 16, 2020

Very good course for the beginner, especially Dr.Charles Severance book is very useful one.